From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "H. Peter Anvin" Subject: Re: [PATCH] Default to ACPI reboots on newish X86 hardware Date: Thu, 07 Jan 2010 15:05:42 -0800 Message-ID: <4B4668C6.7000309@zytor.com> References: <1262894593-25563-1-git-send-email-ch@zeha.at> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49450 "EHLO terminus.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753116Ab0AGXKu (ORCPT ); Thu, 7 Jan 2010 18:10:50 -0500 In-Reply-To: <1262894593-25563-1-git-send-email-ch@zeha.at> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Christian Hofstaedtler Cc: x86@kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, venkatesh.pallipadi@intel.com, arjan@infradead.org, bruce.w.allan@intel.com On 01/07/2010 12:03 PM, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > Newer hardware is assumed to no longer reboot succesfully using the > keyboard controller, but needs to use ACPI instead. > To not cause problems with older hardware, only hardware with a BIOS > date 2006 or newer is considered for this choice. Broken BIOSes > reporting a BIOS date of 0 are not specially considered, and therefore > get the KBD reboot behaviour. > > Also unifiy reboot_type selection code. > > Signed-off-by: Christian Hofstaedtler Looks good to me. Len: do you want to take it or should I? -hpa