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SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI
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Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes:
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> "ACPI" and "safe" in one sentence.

ACPI is safe in that a lot of systems won't even boot anymore without ACPI.

> /me bets this will break lot of machines.

The ACPI reboot is just a write to a IO port with a fallback, so it
should be fairly safe even if the field should be wrong.

-Andi


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