Re: [PATCH 1/3] X86: Revamp reboot behaviour to match Windows more closely

H. Peter Anvin
2010-12-09T22:25:25Z

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<mjg@redhat.com>

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