On Friday, March 11, 2011, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Fri, Mar 11, 2011 at 11:08:18PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > On Friday, March 11, 2011, 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. > > > > Does this fix a particular problem observed in practice? > > Yup. We're seeing an increasing number of machines that don't implement > the legacy keyboard controller at all and fail to reboot if you poke it. > The expectation appears to be that you use the ACPI reboot vector on > these machines. So perhaps you can put a pointer or two into the changelog? That would show precisely that it's not just for pure Windows compatibility. Thanks, Rafael -- 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
