From: Avi Kivity <avi-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 15/15] Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"
Date: Sun, 09 Nov 2008 12:11:03 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4916B737.7050107@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081107005946.GA9254-1xO5oi07KQx4cg9Nei1l7Q@public.gmane.org>
Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Hmm. But we're seeing some machines that end up very confused if
> rebooted via ACPI. I guess we need to run Vista on them to find out how
> they behave. What OSI strings did your KVM setup expose? We know that
> Windows changes behaviour under various circumstances depending on which
> OS the firmware requests, so it's almost possible that this is another
> of those cases.
>
Isn't it the other way around? The firmware changes behavior depending
on how the OS identifies itself?
Reboot is a fixed feature IIRC, so it cannot change depending on
identification strings.
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error compiling committee.c: too many arguments to function
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2008-11-06 19:50 ` [PATCH 15/15] Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI" Len Brown
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