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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>,
	Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86, ACPI: default to reboot via ACPI (again)
Date: Mon, 10 Nov 2008 11:57:32 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081110115732.GA30181@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081110083938.GD22392@elte.hu>

On Mon, Nov 10, 2008 at 09:39:38AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> so, the sequence should be:
> 
>  [ acpi if date > 2007 ] -> kbd -> triple fault

No. We should find out which versions of Windows use the ACPI boot 
mechanism and then

[ acpi if firmware indicates Vista support ] -> whatever

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.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2008-11-10 11:58 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 52+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-11-07  4:45 ACPI patchese on test branch Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45 ` [PATCH 01/10] ACPI: pci_link: remove acpi_irq_balance_set() interface Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 02/10] ACPI: Disambiguate processor declaration type Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 03/10] ACPI: Behave uniquely based on processor declaration definition type Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 04/10] ACPI: 80 column adherence and spelling fix (no functional change) Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 05/10] Hibernate: Call platform_begin before swsusp_shrink_memory Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 06/10] ACPI hibernate: Add a mechanism to save/restore ACPI NVS memory Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 07/10] x86 hibernate: Mark ACPI NVS memory region at startup Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 08/10] ACPI hibernate: Introduce new kernel parameter acpi_sleep=s4_nonvs Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 09/10] compal-laptop: use rfkill switch subsystem Len Brown
2008-11-07  4:45   ` [PATCH 10/10] x86, ACPI: default to reboot via ACPI (again) Len Brown
2008-11-07  7:25     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-08  1:41       ` Len Brown
2008-11-08  6:30         ` Andrey Borzenkov
2008-11-08  7:12           ` Len Brown
2008-11-08  7:50             ` Andrey Borzenkov
2008-11-08 11:59               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-09  9:55                 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-09 10:00                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-10  8:39                     ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10  8:54                       ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-10  9:02                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-11 18:26                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-11 20:29                             ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-11 20:44                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10 11:59                         ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-10 11:57                       ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2008-11-10 12:56                         ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-10 13:00                           ` Matthew Garrett
2008-11-11 23:14                             ` Len Brown
2008-11-12  0:25                               ` Attempt rebooting via port CF9 if it seems to be available H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-12 18:49                                 ` Andrey Borzenkov
2008-11-12  0:27                               ` [PATCH 10/10] x86, ACPI: default to reboot via ACPI (again) Matthew Garrett
2008-11-12 11:58                               ` Ingo Molnar
2008-11-12 12:23                                 ` Avi Kivity
2008-11-13  3:23                                   ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-13  3:18                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-13  3:43                                       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-13  4:10                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-13  4:34                                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-13  4:14                                     ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-13  5:29                                       ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-13  5:25                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-13  6:56                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-13  6:58                                         ` Eric W. Biederman
2008-11-13  9:06                                           ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-13 17:42                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-14  1:29                                               ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-14  1:22                                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-14  1:49                                                   ` Zhao Yakui
2008-11-13  3:29                                 ` Stephen Rothwell
2008-11-08 12:40         ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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