The patch titled
Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug
has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is
work-around-dell-e520-bios-reboot-bug.patch
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Subject: Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug
From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Force Dell E520 to use the BIOS to shutdown/reboot.
I have at least one report that this patch fixes shutdown/reboot
problems on the Dell E520 platform.
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@xxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c | 8 ++++++++
1 files changed, 8 insertions(+)
diff -puN arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c~work-around-dell-e520-bios-reboot-bug arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c
--- a/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c~work-around-dell-e520-bios-reboot-bug
+++ a/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c
@@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ static int __init set_bios_reboot(struct
}
static struct dmi_system_id __initdata reboot_dmi_table[] = {
+ { /* Handle problems with rebooting on Dell E520's */
+ .callback = set_bios_reboot,
+ .ident = "Dell E520",
+ .matches = {
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."),
+ DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Dell DM061"),
+ },
+ },
{ /* Handle problems with rebooting on Dell 1300's */
.callback = set_bios_reboot,
.ident = "Dell PowerEdge 1300",
_
Patches currently in -mm which might be from tim.gardner@xxxxxxxxxx are
git-wireless.patch
work-around-dell-e520-bios-reboot-bug.patch
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