Re: [GIT PULL] x86 fixes

Ingo Molnar
2013-10-15T07:15:13Z

* Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:

>
> * H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com> wrote:
>
> > On 10/12/2013 11:05 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 10:15 AM, Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> Ville Syrjälä (1):
> > >> x86/reboot: Add reboot quirk for Dell Latitude E5410
> > >
> > > So we have a number of these quirks, and Dell seems to be one of the
> > > more common factors.
>
> I raised this with hpa when the latest round of Dell quirks were added,
> but I agree that the quirk frequency sucks (for every quirk there's
> likely 5 times as many boxes still out there that we haven't applied a
> quirk for yet ...) and I agree that this needs to be discussed more
> widely.

One problem we have is that we have sporadic end user reports only, with
no systematic testing done by Dell on these systems apparently. Is there
anyone at Dell who cares about these reboot problems that upstream kernels
exhibit with VT-d enabled?

Thanks,

Ingo