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From: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pingved@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] boot: small change of halt method
Date: Fri, 25 Aug 2006 00:03:20 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <44EE2228.5020807@flower.upol.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EDF923.4030607@zytor.com>

H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Andrew Brukhov wrote:
> 
>> I'm new here.
>> After reading boot code i'm immidiatly change this string:
...
>> + * Small fix of halt method Andrew Brukhov, Aug. 2006                 */
>>  
<http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt>

> 
>     while (1)
>         asm volatile("hlt");
> 
> ... since HLT only pauses until interrupt.
> 
Why not to have a reboot here?
Testing and getting such errors on my laptop, it needs a power cycle.

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-24 21:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-24 18:44 [PATCH] boot: small change of halt method Andrew Brukhov
2006-08-24 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-24 22:03   ` Oleg Verych [this message]
2006-08-24 21:14     ` Grzegorz Kulewski
2006-08-24 21:25     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-24 22:56       ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-24 22:20         ` H. Peter Anvin

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