linux-kernel - Re: ThinkPad T400 : should kernel option "reboot=pci" be hard coded ?

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Date:	Wed, 9 Jun 2010 09:26:21 -0400
From:	Nick Bowler <nbowler@...iptictech.com>
To:	Toralf Förster <toralf.foerster@....de>
Cc:	ibm-acpi-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: ThinkPad T400 : should kernel option "reboot=pci" be hard
 coded ?

On 11:22 Mon 07 Jun     , Toralf Förster wrote:
> Since some kernel version (IIRC since 2.6.31) it is necessary to boot the 
> linux kernel with that option to prevent an extra 9 seconds delay during 
> reboot.
> I found this tip on the LKML -and now I'm wondering whether this option should 
> be hard coded in the kernel sources b/c it seems to be necessary for current 
> kernels too.

Wow!  That delay has been frustrating me since I bought my T500 last
year.  I had tried a couple reboot= options (triple, acpi) and they all
had the delay, so I figured it was something inherent with the system
firmware.

But reboot=pci works perfectly!  Thanks for the tip.

-- 
Nick Bowler, Elliptic Technologies (http://www.elliptictech.com/)
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