linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI

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Date:	Tue, 26 Aug 2008 17:10:51 +0100
From:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To:	Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com>
Cc:	"Maciej W. Rozycki" <macro@...ux-mips.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI

> Only common sense.  Non-recent machines are barely usable these days.  
> Sure they work well as a firewall or server-in-a-closet, but if you run 
> a desktop or a server that actually does useful work, you're running a 
> relatively recent machine.

Or a properly written desktop, or a thin client for desktop or ...

The really old boxes are actually not the problem, we don't try and use
ACPI on them so we won't try ACPI reboot. For those later ones it is
probably worth trying anyway - we might end up with a different blacklist
to before but there are multiple servers that really don't like old style
reboot nowdays.

Alan
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