Re: [PATCH 15/15] Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"

Ingo Molnar
2008-11-06T07:14:45Z

* Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org> wrote:

> This reverts commit c7ffa6c26277b403920e2255d10df849bd613380.
>
> Now that we have the hooks to disable virtualization on
> emergency_restart(), we can get back to the BOOT_KBD reboot_type default.
>
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>

hm, why revert this? There's nothing wrong with the ACPI reboot
method, it's just that we surprise the BIOS by exiting with an unclean
VMX state in certain circumstances.

if the ACPI reboot method does not work we do the KBD method as the
next thing in the reboot chain.

Ingo