From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca>
Cc: James Jarvis <James.Jarvis@ed.ac.uk>,
Riley@Williams.Name, Linux-Kernel@vger.kernel.org,
graham.newton@ed.ac.uk, kenneth.macdonald@ed.ac.uk
Subject: Re: DMI_MATCH patch in reboot.c for SFF Dell OptiPlex 745 - fixes hang on reboot
Date: Tue, 5 Jun 2007 12:55:22 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070605115521.GA10634@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4664B306.5000107@shaw.ca>
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:49:10PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:
> This blacklist seems to be growing. Isn't there something better we can
> do here? Can we just reboot through the BIOS by default, is that really
> broken on some systems?
Yes, that breaks a separate set of machines. It would be interesting to
try resetting just by banging the keyboard controller from userspace,
and seeing if that fails in the same way - I suspect that on certain
hardware, part of the shutdown process confuses it in some way.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-06-05 11:55 UTC|newest]
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2007-06-05 0:49 ` DMI_MATCH patch in reboot.c for SFF Dell OptiPlex 745 - fixes hang on reboot Robert Hancock
2007-06-05 8:42 ` James E. Jarvis
2007-06-05 11:55 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2007-06-04 16:12 James Jarvis
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