linux-kernel - Re: reboot via bios on X86

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Date:	Mon, 9 Apr 2012 19:07:11 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To:	Miles Fidelman <mfidelman@...tinghouse.net>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, x86@...nel.org, peter.chubb@...ta.com.au,
	michael.d.labriola@...il.com
Subject: Re: reboot via bios on X86_64?

On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:57:46PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >On Mon, Apr 09, 2012 at 01:26:40PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> >
> >>No.  Tried all the combinations - w/ and w/o hypervisor, all the
> >>available kernel options.  Seems
> >>like the only thing that will reboot this particular hardware/bios
> >>combo is via the bios.
> >And this is with 3.3? Interesting. What's the exact behaviour you see,
> >and what motherboard is this?
> >
> 
> No.  2.6.32.5  (the one that currently ships with Debian stable).

Ok. The reboot code has been reworked since then. It'd be good to try it 
with a new kernel.

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