Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86, ACPI: default to reboot via ACPI (again)

Matthew Garrett
2008-11-10T13:00:48Z

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 01:56:30PM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> wrote:
> > or something. Microsoft appear to have moved away from using date
> > cutoffs for anything other than whether or not to enable ACPI in the
> > first place, and we ought to attempt compatibility with them.
>
> okay, that's fine to me too. My main point is that we need something
> nuanced this time around (be it a string check or a cutoff) - not the
> "enable again" patch that i saw in the ACPI tree and which i had to
> NAK.

All we need now is confirmation as to which versions of Windows use this
behaviour.

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