linux-kernel - Re: Acer Aspire One now hangs on reboot/shutdown

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Message-ID: <20110701002221.GA19015@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Fri, 1 Jul 2011 01:22:21 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
Cc:	Peter Chubb <peter.chubb@...ta.com.au>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Acer Aspire One now hangs on reboot/shutdown

On Thu, Jun 30, 2011 at 05:18:01PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:

> It might be a RESET versus INIT difference... if the "PCI reboot" (which
> is what "ACPI reboot") points to, it might end up pulling INIT, whereas
> the keyboard controller pulls RESET.
> 
> RESET would forcibly initialize the hardware state of the machine,
> obviously...

I guess I'm going to have to go back and retest the XP behaviour. I'd 
expect this machine to be using the ACPI vector there too.

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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