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SubjectRe: [PATCH] boot: small change of halt method
On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Oleg Verych wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>> Andrew Brukhov wrote:
>>
>> > I'm new here.
>> > After reading boot code i'm immidiatly change this string:
> ...
>> > + * Small fix of halt method Andrew Brukhov, Aug. 2006
>> > */
>> >
> <http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt>
>
>>
>> while (1)
>> asm volatile("hlt");
>>
>> ... since HLT only pauses until interrupt.
>>
> Why not to have a reboot here?
> Testing and getting such errors on my laptop, it needs a power cycle.

And what if hlt is buggy? I have at least one pIII tualatin based server
that has some strange mainboard problem and will work only if nohlt is
passed to the kernel.


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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