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Date: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 16:46:00 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: "Li, Aubrey" <aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com>,
Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Subject: Re: [BUG] x86: reboot doesn't reboot
On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 08:39:51AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
> There are several platforms where the default boot method invokes an SMM
> handler which blithly assumes that the hardware is in whatever state
> Windows leaves it in, and hangs otherwise. This seems to include nearly
> all Dell systems. So it isn't really quite that simple...
That's the story of all firmware, ever.
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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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