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Message-ID: <20081103090843.GI11730@elte.hu> Date: Mon, 3 Nov 2008 10:08:43 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu> To: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru>, Avi Kivity <avi@...ranet.com> Cc: mingo@...hat.com, avi@...ranet.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use BIOS reboot on Toshiba Portege 4000 * Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> wrote: > Subject: [PATCH] Use BIOS reboot on Toshiba Portege 4000 > > From: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> > > After commit c7ffa6c26277b403920e2255d10df849bd613380 which defaults > to reboot via ACPI keyboard is dead on Toshiba Portege 4000 upon reboot. > Power off is required to revive it again. Add DMI entry to force BIOS > reboot method as it was before. > > Signed-off-by: Andrey Borzenkov <arvidjaar@...l.ru> Avi, i expect more boxes to be affected by this bug, and the DMI solution just does not scale. So could we please disable VMX from the emergency-shutdown code instead of twiddling with the reboot method? Something like this might work as well: iff VMX is enabled, we just do smp_send_stop() (instead of skipping it) which should take care of this. Ingo -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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