From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753879Ab0LIWZZ (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:25:25 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:57801 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750758Ab0LIWZX (ORCPT ); Thu, 9 Dec 2010 17:25:23 -0500 Message-ID: <4D015741.7090500@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 09 Dec 2010 14:25:05 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.2.12) Gecko/20101027 Fedora/3.1.6-1.fc13 Thunderbird/3.1.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett CC: x86@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, lenb@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] X86: Revamp reboot behaviour to match Windows more closely References: <1291931204-5854-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> In-Reply-To: <1291931204-5854-1-git-send-email-mjg@redhat.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 12/09/2010 01:46 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Windows reboots by hitting the ACPI reboot vector (if available), trying > the keyboard controller, hitting the ACPI reboot vector again and then > giving the keyboard controller one last go. Rework our reboot process a > little to default to matching this behaviour, although we'll fall through > to attempting a triple fault if nothing else works. > > Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett When this was discussed before we agreed to use ACPI reboot by default with an ACPI cutoff date; this doesn't have any such cutoff. -hpa