From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S933738AbXGQOjx (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:39:53 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758289AbXGQOja (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:39:30 -0400 Received: from shawidc-mo1.cg.shawcable.net ([24.71.223.10]:32140 "EHLO pd2mo2so.prod.shaw.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754271AbXGQOj1 (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 10:39:27 -0400 Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:39:52 -0600 From: Robert Hancock Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism In-reply-to: To: Andi Kleen Cc: Aaron Durbin , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org Message-id: <469CD4B8.9070506@shaw.ca> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (Windows/20070604) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2007 20:00:19 Aaron Durbin wrote: >> Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. > > Why? I had such a patch at some point as experiment, but it never > helped actually fix a box. Depends if Windows resets using this method, in that case using it as well would likely prevent the steady trickle of machines that seem to have trouble with other reset methods and need blacklist entries.. I sometimes think that with these sorts of things where basic functionality like reboot is broken, people are too quick to put in hacks to make it work and nobody looks into why it works consistently in Windows but not in Linux and what we are doing differently.. -- Robert Hancock Saskatoon, SK, Canada To email, remove "nospam" from hancockr@nospamshaw.ca Home Page: http://www.roberthancock.com/