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From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, hpa@zytor.com, bruno@ioda-net.ch,
	mjg@redhat.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Add reboot quirk for Dell Precision M4600
Date: Sat, 6 Aug 2011 08:56:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20110806065635.GE13220@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20110727125651.GH3010@suse.de>


* Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de> wrote:

> ACPI reboot does not work for Dell Precision M4600. Detect this
> machine via DMI and force the use of the PCI reboot method.
>     
> Reported-and-tested-by: Bruno Friedmann <bruno@ioda-net.ch>
> Signed-off-by: Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>
> ---
>  arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c |    9 +++++++++
>  1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

Weird - ACPI is the default Windows method of reboot - how come it 
does not work on that box? Does Windows work around this specific 
machine (unlikely), or is our ACPI boot sequence not 100% compatible 
with the Windows method (more likely IMO)?

Thanks,

	Ingo

  reply	other threads:[~2011-08-06  6:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-07-27 12:56 [PATCH] x86: Add reboot quirk for Dell Precision M4600 Mel Gorman
2011-08-06  6:56 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2011-08-06  7:01   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-06 15:31     ` Len Brown
2011-08-06 18:18       ` Bruno Friedmann
2011-08-06 15:30   ` Matthew Garrett
2011-08-08 16:40     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-08 22:49       ` Bruno Friedmann
2011-08-09 11:26       ` Bruno Friedmann
2011-08-09 15:02         ` Ingo Molnar
2011-08-09 16:20           ` Bruno Friedmann
2011-08-08 14:57   ` Mel Gorman

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