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From: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/10] x86, ACPI: default to reboot via ACPI (again)
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 14:23:21 +0200
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To: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>, Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>, Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>, Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@mail.ru>, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost@redhat.com>

Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>> We knows XP and Vista do it.
>>
>> But upstream doesn't currently check the FADT.flags.reset-reg-supported bit
>> due to a recent bad guess on my part on how to be bug compatible with 
>> windows.
>>
>> The (revert) patch to add that check is in my tree, along with
>> the trivial patch to flip the default to acpi-reset.
>>
>> Technically, that is the only "unanced" thing we should need
>> to check.  However, it will not fix Avi's box, where it appears
>> that flag is present, the reset works, but for some reason the
>> keyboard fails after reset.  More likely that is a device driver
>> issue specific to Linux interacting with "unexpected" BIOS behavior.
>>     
>
> hm, will that also fix Andrey's box?
>   

This describes Andrey's box, not mine.  Mine (and others) have working 
acpi reset and non-working keyboard reset; so reset was done using 
triple-fault which fails when virtualization is enabled.


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