Messages in this thread | | | From | Andi Kleen <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/1] Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug. | Date | Wed, 30 May 2007 00:52:58 +0200 |
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On Wednesday 30 May 2007 00:33, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Fri, 25 May 2007 21:58:09 -0500 > > Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> wrote: > > On Wed, May 23, 2007 at 01:12:44PM -0600, Tim Gardner wrote: > > > From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@ubuntu.com> > > > Subject: [PATCH] Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug. > > > > > > Force Dell E520 to use the BIOS to shutdown/reboot. > > > > > > Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@ubuntu.com> > > > > Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> > > > > Thanks Tim for submitting this. > > Do you think this is also required in 2.6.21.x?
People can always set the boot option. It hardly seems like a critical issue needing a backport.
> Andi: ack for 2.6.22 inclusion?
Ok.
At some point we'll likely need to change the default anyways; the keyboard controller method seems to become flakier and flakier. I was actually thinking about using ACPI reset instead though.
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