This message generated a parse failure. Raw output follows here. Please use 'back' to navigate. From devnull@lkml.org Fri Dec 1 07:19:57 2023 Received: from nic.funet.fi (nic.funet.fi [128.214.248.6]) by herbie.ucs.indiana.edu (8.7.5/8.6.12) with ESMTP id LAA17314 for ; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:24:04 -0500 (EST) Received: from vger.rutgers.edu ([128.6.190.2]) by nic.funet.fi with ESMTP id <61378-21750>; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 18:23:07 +0200 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id <106083-9553>; Mon, 21 Oct 1996 11:54:31 -0400 Date: Mon, 21 Oct 1996 17:49:04 +0200 (MET DST) From: Hans Lermen To: Matthias Urlichs Cc: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu, Jamie Lokier , torvalds@cs.helsinki.fi Subject: Re: Reboot-by-BIOS-jump-patch In-Reply-To: <96Oct21.122740-0200met_dst.2654-7330+5@work.smurf.noris.de> Message-Id: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Precedence: bulk On Mon, 21 Oct 1996, Matthias Urlichs wrote: > Well, here it is again; I modified the thing so that's (a) properly > indented and (b) you can control whether to boot via the BIOS by saying > "reboot=bios" or "reboot=hard" on the LILO command line (or its append= > string). Stuff like "reboot=cold,bios" works, too. > > Linus: Please include in the kernel. Without it, a lot of boards with the > newer AMD 486/100 and /133 chips (mine included) don't want to reboot at > all. Well, I'll vote for this. > > Anyway, if the original author of this patch would kindly step forward and > accept the blame  credit for it... AFAIK the credits for this patch should go to Jamie Lokier , who originally posted it on linux-kernel. Hans