linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/reboot] [PATCH] x86: Try the BIOS reboot method before the PCI reboot method

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Date:	Fri, 04 Apr 2014 05:37:42 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, mjg59@...f.ucam.org,
	aubrey.li@...ux.intel.com, rostedt@...dmis.org, tglx@...utronix.de
CC:	linux-tip-commits@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [tip:x86/reboot] [PATCH] x86: Try the BIOS reboot method before the PCI reboot method

Trying anything at all after BIOS is meaningless as BIOS is terminal... it will either work or it will hang.  Triplefault is the same way.

On April 4, 2014 1:00:07 AM PDT, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org> wrote:
>
>* tip-bot for Ingo Molnar <tipbot@...or.com> wrote:
>
>> Commit-ID:  d122ab8d224a59aa0c3e4ba3540c6ab99556c3e3
>> Gitweb:    
>http://git.kernel.org/tip/d122ab8d224a59aa0c3e4ba3540c6ab99556c3e3
>> Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
>> AuthorDate: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 08:41:26 +0200
>> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
>> CommitDate: Fri, 4 Apr 2014 08:48:03 +0200
>> 
>> [PATCH] x86: Try the BIOS reboot method before the PCI reboot method
>
>So, JFYI, I have put this into x86/reboot to get it tested, but it's 
>not queued up for upstream yet until there's concensus.
>
>(Steve testing it wouldn't hurt either.)
>
>Thanks,
>
>	Ingo

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