From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>, Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI
Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:07:15 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20080826110715.GA26204@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <ac9c93b10808260403ga9f6e13v4792bb2c13dfc2bf@mail.gmail.com>
* Frans Meulenbroeks <fransmeulenbroeks@gmail.com> wrote:
> 2008/8/26 Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com>:
>
> > It seems excessive. Most machines will hardly run without acpi.
>
> Well, I'm fairly sure that most of the systems running linux (or some
> variant like uclinux), do not support acpi.
>
> Linux is used a lot in embedded systems (like routers and NAS-es and
> probably set-top boxes). I guess the # of embedded systems with some
> linux flavour on it is substantially bigger than the desktop systems.
> Most of these are ARM or MIPS based and do not support ACPI.
... which is not an issue in this particular discussion, which was about
x86 with ACPI support enabled and available, whether in that case (and
only in that case) we should first try the ACPI reboot ports (that the
ACPI descriptors advertise) before also trying the other methods (kdb,
bios, triple fault, etc.) to reboot the box.
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-08-26 11:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-08-25 10:11 [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI Avi Kivity
2008-08-25 10:32 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-26 9:50 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-26 10:05 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-26 10:33 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-26 12:14 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-26 12:31 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-26 13:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-08-26 13:33 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-26 14:12 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-26 14:50 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-08-26 14:24 ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2008-08-26 16:10 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-26 16:16 ` Andi Kleen
2008-08-27 9:18 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-27 10:51 ` Avi Kivity
2008-08-27 13:13 ` Pavel Machek
2008-08-26 11:03 ` Frans Meulenbroeks
2008-08-26 10:52 ` Alan Cox
2008-08-26 11:07 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2008-08-26 10:36 ` Ingo Molnar
2008-08-26 11:26 ` Andi Kleen
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