From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI" Date: Thu, 06 Nov 2008 07:41:01 -0800 Message-ID: References: <1225915018-6548-1-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com> <1225915018-6548-16-git-send-email-ehabkost@redhat.com> <20081106071445.GI15731@elte.hu> <20081106124031.GO5247@blackpad> <20081106143021.GD13023@elte.hu> <20081106150610.GA1644@elte.hu> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Cc: Eduardo Habkost , Avi Kivity , Simon Horman , Andrew Morton , Vivek Goyal , Haren Myneni , Andrey Borzenkov , mingo@redhat.com, "Rafael J. Wysocki" , kexec@lists.infradead.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org To: Ingo Molnar Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]:36500 "EHLO out01.mta.xmission.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752652AbYKFPp1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 6 Nov 2008 10:45:27 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20081106150610.GA1644@elte.hu> (Ingo Molnar's message of "Thu, 6 Nov 2008 16:06:10 +0100") Sender: kvm-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: Ingo Molnar writes: > * Ingo Molnar wrote: > >> > Andrey Borzenkov's patch, for example, adds a new DMI entry >> > because reboot=acpi breaks his keyboard (even without KVM, I >> > guess). Andrey, was that the case? >> >> hm, IIRC the problem was KVM in his case too. > > actually, Andrey's problem seems to be unrelated. So i've queued up > the revert below in tip/x86/urgent for v2.6.28. Thanks guys! If there are a number of problems with reboot and reset I'm wondering if we should investigate using an outb to port 0x92. With the right bit set you can trigger a toggle of the reset line on many motherboards. Eric