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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>, 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: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:00:59 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4916B4DB.90602@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4916B38B.7050905@redhat.com>

Avi Kivity wrote:
> 
> I think the sequence should be acpi -> kbd -> triple fault.  Given that
> Windows uses ACPI, the number of machines that support it is much larger
> (and growing daily) than the number of machines that do not.
> 

Like with many other things ACPI, there probably should be an ACPI date
cutoff for using it by default.  There is also port CF9 reboot (often
incorrectly described as "PCI reboot", but it has nothing to do with the
PCI standard.)

	-hpa

  reply	other threads:[~2008-11-09 10:01 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 [this message]
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
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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