On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:32:52PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/09/2010 02:32 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:25:05PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >>> 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. >> > > Windows doesn't get validated on old hardware. XP does this, and older hardware predates the version of the ACPI spec that introduced this flag. -- 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
