From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add DMI quirk for Intel DP55KG mainboard Date: Wed, 6 Jan 2010 14:36:40 +0000 Message-ID: <20100106143640.GB13984@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100104162114.GA30113@percival.namespace.at> <4B4225B3.8070705@zytor.com> <20100104174558.158cd512@infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:51112 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932206Ab0AFOiu (ORCPT ); Wed, 6 Jan 2010 09:38:50 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100104174558.158cd512@infradead.org> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" , Len Brown , Christian Hofstaedtler , x86@kernel.org, Linux Kernel Mailing List , bruce.w.allan@intel.com, Thomas Gleixner , Justin Piszcz , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Venkatesh Pallipadi On Mon, Jan 04, 2010 at 05:45:58PM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > can we do it based on the dmi/acpi year? > Eg for all 2008 and later machines or something, while leaving the > older ones as is I think a saner model would be to use a similar method to Windows - that is, change behaviour based on the OSI calls that the firmware makes. If the firmware supports Vista, it's probably safe to use the ACPI reboot method. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org