On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:25:05PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > 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@xxxxxxxxxx> > > 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. Windows doesn't either. Older machines simply won't have the appropriate flag set in their FADT. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
