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From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, x86@kernel.org,
	linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, stable@kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X86: Solve Dell Latitudes do not reboot on x86_64 more generally
Date: Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:12:13 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20111107151213.GA20270@srcf.ucam.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201111071609.54731.trenn@suse.de>

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:09:54PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Monday, November 07, 2011 03:27:40 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Tear down VT-D state before reboot.
> But doing this for all X86 machines because of a handful of
> Dells with broken SMM code sounds wrong as well.

We've already torn everything down at this point. What's the downside?

> Doesn't Dell ship with Ubuntu pre-loaded?
> Can't someone point them to this to get this fixed in BIOS?

I've been trying.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org

  reply	other threads:[~2011-11-07 15:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-11-04  2:29 [PATCH] x86: Fix reboot issue for Dell Optiplex 990 V2 Thomas Renninger
2011-11-04  7:16 ` Ismail Donmez
2011-11-05  0:44   ` [PATCH] X86: Solve Dell Latitudes do not reboot on x86_64 more generally Thomas Renninger
2011-11-07  1:54     ` Len Brown
2011-11-07 13:59     ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-07 14:25       ` Thomas Renninger
2011-11-07 14:27         ` Matthew Garrett
2011-11-07 15:09           ` Thomas Renninger
2011-11-07 15:12             ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2011-11-07 17:40               ` Len Brown
2011-11-06 19:48   ` [PATCH] x86: Fix reboot issue for Dell Optiplex 990 V2 Valdis.Kletnieks

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