On Thursday 07 January 2010 21:03:13 Christian Hofstaedtler wrote: > Newer hardware is assumed to no longer reboot succesfully using the > keyboard controller, but needs to use ACPI instead. > To not cause problems with older hardware, only hardware with a BIOS > date 2006 or newer is considered for this choice. Broken BIOSes > reporting a BIOS date of 0 are not specially considered, and therefore > get the KBD reboot behaviour. > > Also unifiy reboot_type selection code. So this is probably the patch with all comments addressed, except for doing some _OSI ACPI call detection. If someone wants to do something based on that idea, please do - I know too little about this stuff to be useful here. Christian -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
