Messages in this thread | | | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Use correct x86 reboot vector | Date | 13 May 2003 11:45:00 -0700 |
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Followup to: <200305130851_MC3-1-38A3-A3B4@compuserve.com> By author: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com> In newsgroup: linux.dev.kernel > > Christer Weinigel wrote: > > > BTW, what does Windows do here? Whatever Windows is using should work > > with Linux too. > > I've only ever seen NT4/2K do a warm reboot, if that's relevant. > > FreeBSD unmaps every page in the machine and then flushes the > TLB as its last-resort reboot attempt. I assume this causes a > triplefault... >
So it does. It's easier, though, to set the limit on the IDTR to zero and then trap.
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