From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86, ACPI: default to reboot via ACPI (again) Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 02:00:59 -0800 Message-ID: <4916B4DB.90602@zytor.com> References: <007e7d616a5d1c2e16ad627d03f8b97799445e71.1226032943.git.len.brown@intel.com> <200811080930.21462.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <200811081050.25477.arvidjaar@mail.ru> <20081108115956.GE8354@elte.hu> <4916B38B.7050905@redhat.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50570 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752555AbYKIKBo (ORCPT ); Sun, 9 Nov 2008 05:01:44 -0500 In-Reply-To: <4916B38B.7050905@redhat.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Avi Kivity Cc: Ingo Molnar , Andrey Borzenkov , Len Brown , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Thomas Gleixner , Eduardo Habkost , Andrew Morton 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