Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI | From | Andi Kleen <> | Date | Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:26:18 +0200 |
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Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> writes: > > "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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