Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 9 Dec 2010 22:32:01 +0000 | | From | Matthew Garrett <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/3] X86: Revamp reboot behaviour to match Windows more closely |
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On Thu, Dec 09, 2010 at 02:25:05PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 12/09/2010 01:46 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote: >> Windows reboots by hitting the ACPI reboot vector (if available), trying >> the keyboard controller, hitting the ACPI reboot vector again and then >> giving the keyboard controller one last go. Rework our reboot process a >> little to default to matching this behaviour, although we'll fall through >> to attempting a triple fault if nothing else works. >> >> Signed-off-by: Matthew Garrett<mjg@redhat.com> > > When this was discussed before we agreed to use ACPI reboot by default > with an ACPI cutoff date; this doesn't have any such cutoff.
Windows doesn't either. Older machines simply won't have the appropriate flag set in their FADT.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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