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Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:28:48 -0700
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
"Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>
CC: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, rostedt@...dmis.org,
tglx@...utronix.de, linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org,
Adam Williamson <awilliam@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/reboot] [PATCH] x86: Try the BIOS reboot method before
the PCI reboot method
On 04/04/2014 08:13 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 09:38:57PM +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote:
>
>> I don't think there is enough justification to revert the patch. We
>> introduce EFI into the default list, we didn't see any reason to remove
>> it out so far.
>
> We should be using the EFI method, yes. But it seems that CF9 isn't
> safe, so we should drop that.
>
As I said, I'm willing to hear about production hardware having problems
before killing it off, but we should dig into the history of the past
removal.
-hpa
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