Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:14:57 +0200 (CEST) | From | Grzegorz Kulewski <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] boot: small change of halt method |
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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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