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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI
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Avi Kivity <avi@qumranet.com> writes:
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> If a machine has acpi, and the reset register is wired to the launch
> controller, then perhaps this change is unsafe. Don't issue sysrq-b
> on such machines.

Even if it's wired to the launch controller the launch controller
would need to be quite quick to do something before the following
triple fault/keyboard reset->PCI reset stops it again.

-Andi


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