From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] X86: Solve Dell Latitudes do not reboot on x86_64 more generally Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:12:13 +0000 Message-ID: <20111107151213.GA20270@srcf.ucam.org> References: <4EB39139.3090709@suse.de> <201111071525.14255.trenn@suse.de> <20111107142740.GA17686@srcf.ucam.org> <201111071609.54731.trenn@suse.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:38887 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750894Ab1KGPMQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 7 Nov 2011 10:12:16 -0500 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201111071609.54731.trenn@suse.de> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Thomas Renninger Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:09:54PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote: > On Monday, November 07, 2011 03:27:40 PM Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Tear down VT-D state before reboot. > But doing this for all X86 machines because of a handful of > Dells with broken SMM code sounds wrong as well. We've already torn everything down at this point. What's the downside? > Doesn't Dell ship with Ubuntu pre-loaded? > Can't someone point them to this to get this fixed in BIOS? I've been trying. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org