From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI Date: Wed, 27 Aug 2008 15:13:13 +0200 Message-ID: <20080827131312.GA6221@ucw.cz> References: <1219659087-17536-1-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> <20080826095032.GA309@elf.ucw.cz> <48B3D579.40502@qumranet.com> <20080826113317.520cbab1@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <48B3F3A9.8030709@qumranet.com> <87fxorsqdx.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> <20080827091810.GB1688@elf.ucw.cz> <48B531BD.20608@qumranet.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Andi Kleen , "Maciej W. Rozycki" , Alan Cox , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Return-path: Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2687 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754788AbYH0NN0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 27 Aug 2008 09:13:26 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <48B531BD.20608@qumranet.com> Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: On Wed 2008-08-27 13:51:41, Avi Kivity wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >I'd not count of this. When you relegate laptop to > >"quiet home server" > >role, the mechanical stresses suddenly stop, and I'd > >expect it to > >survive for long long years. > > > > For every user who uses an old laptop as a home server, > or has a "best MIPS64 box", there are maybe five million > users with a 0-3 year old x86 computer (they don't know > that it's really a "box"). Five million... um yes, probably, and those five million users run Windows Vista... So lets not introduce regressions, please. (Anyway, the patch is probably good, but 'old machines do not matter' is not.) Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html