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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: "Aaron Durbin" <adurbin@google.com>
Cc: "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org,
	len.brown@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 17:42:38 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200707171742.39067.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <8f95bb250707170808n19799ba5l3acd13e2ee7e0f08@mail.gmail.com>

On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:08:19 Aaron Durbin wrote:
 
> This is true if SMIs are still flowing, and the SMI handler correctly handles
> the reset properly. I have seen cases where the SMI handler is broken which
> causes the system to perpetually hang.

Ah, that is the rationale that was missing in the first mail ...
Ok that makes some sense. Is it a common issue? 

-Andi

  reply	other threads:[~2007-07-17 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-07-16 18:00 [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism Aaron Durbin
2007-07-16 18:17 ` Arjan van de Ven
2007-07-16 18:22   ` Aaron Durbin
2007-07-17  1:46 ` Shaohua Li
2007-07-17  2:10   ` Aaron Durbin
2007-07-17 11:31 ` Andi Kleen
2007-07-17 14:40   ` Yinghai Lu
2007-07-17 15:08     ` Aaron Durbin
2007-07-17 15:42       ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2007-07-17 15:47         ` Aaron Durbin
2007-07-17 15:08   ` Aaron Durbin
2007-07-27  6:17     ` Pavel Machek
     [not found] <fa.IMXKKgfBkv/U+MG0xx5sLkpV2Ws@ifi.uio.no>
     [not found] ` <fa.+iOE+OqrQUbecN788fV4aEhLLtg@ifi.uio.no>
2007-07-17 14:39   ` Robert Hancock
2007-07-17 15:41     ` Andi Kleen

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