From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reboot through the BIOS on newer HP laptops
Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:29:03 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051124072903.GA28327@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511240726.16669.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:26:16AM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Thursday 24 November 2005 05:21, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Newer HP laptops (nc4200, nc6xxx, nc8xxx) hang on reboot with a standard
> > configuration. Passing reboot=b makes them work. This patch adds a DMI
> > quirk that defaults them to this mode, and doesn't appear to have any
> > adverse affects on older HPs.
>
> Might be better to specify machines that actually have this issue. My NC6000
> does not have any reboot issues with current or prior kernels, and such a
> change risks regressing that.
This works fine with the NC6000, and every other HP-Compaq I've been
able to test it on (which is quite a few). The alternative is really
quite a long list.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-24 7:29 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-11-24 5:21 [PATCH] Reboot through the BIOS on newer HP laptops Matthew Garrett
2005-11-24 7:26 ` Alistair John Strachan
2005-11-24 7:29 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2005-11-27 4:33 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-27 11:56 ` Matthew Garrett
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