linux-kernel - Re: reboot via bios on X86

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Message-ID: <20120410174423.GA19583@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Tue, 10 Apr 2012 18:44:23 +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 Tue, Apr 10, 2012 at 01:26:43PM -0400, Miles Fidelman wrote:
> For what it's worth, creating a path for X86_64 mode to reboot
> through the bios seems like
> a good thing to put on the wish list.

Not really - it's far more attractive to figure out how our behaviour is 
differing from Windows and change it to match. I'll see what I can find 
out about this machine.

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