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SubjectRe: DMI_MATCH patch in reboot.c for SFF Dell OptiPlex 745 - fixes hang on reboot
On Mon, Jun 04, 2007 at 06:49:10PM -0600, Robert Hancock wrote:

> This blacklist seems to be growing. Isn't there something better we can
> do here? Can we just reboot through the BIOS by default, is that really
> broken on some systems?

Yes, that breaks a separate set of machines. It would be interesting to
try resetting just by banging the keyboard controller from userspace,
and seeing if that fails in the same way - I suspect that on certain
hardware, part of the shutdown process confuses it in some way.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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