Re: [stable] x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag

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On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 02:34:52PM +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 12:20 +0100, Matt Fleming wrote:
> > On Mon, 2015-05-04 at 02:33 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote:
> > > Would this be a sensible addition to 3.16-stable or any older stable
> > > branch?
> > > 
> > > commit 44be28e9dd9880dca3e2cbf7a844f2114e67f2cb
> > > Author: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@xxxxxxxxx>
> > > Date:   Fri Jun 13 12:39:55 2014 +0100
> > > 
> > >     x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware Reduced flag
> > 
> > I'm not sure what the support for ACPI hardware-reduced platforms (ASUS
> > T100, etc) is like in the stable releases but if it does exist then yeah
> > you probably want the above commit. The above commit should be a pretty
> > low-risk change.
> 
> I understand that the Asus T100 at least is mostly working under 3.16.
> 
> > Be sure to also include commit 8562c99cdd30 ("efi/reboot: Add generic
> > wrapper around EfiResetSystem()") and commit 0c5ed61adbdb ("efi/reboot:
> > Allow powering off machines using EFI").
> 

Thank you Ben and Matt.  I'll have a look at these commits and queue
them for the next release.

Cheers,
--
Luís
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