linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] X86: Solve Dell Latitudes do not reboot on x86

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Message-ID: <20111107151213.GA20270@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Mon, 7 Nov 2011 15:12:13 +0000
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Thomas Renninger <trenn@...e.de>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org, stable@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] X86: Solve Dell Latitudes do not reboot on x86_64 more
 generally

On Mon, Nov 07, 2011 at 04:09:54PM +0100, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> On Monday, November 07, 2011 03:27:40 PM Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Tear down VT-D state before reboot.
> But doing this for all X86 machines because of a handful of
> Dells with broken SMM code sounds wrong as well.

We've already torn everything down at this point. What's the downside?

> Doesn't Dell ship with Ubuntu pre-loaded?
> Can't someone point them to this to get this fixed in BIOS?

I've been trying.

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