Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934400AbaDIUus (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2014 16:50:48 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:50194 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S933590AbaDIUur (ORCPT ); Wed, 9 Apr 2014 16:50:47 -0400 Message-ID: <5345B278.8060703@zytor.com> Date: Wed, 09 Apr 2014 13:50:00 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Adam Williamson CC: "Li, Aubrey" , One Thousand Gnomes , Matthew Garrett , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [tip:x86/reboot] [PATCH] x86: Try the BIOS reboot method before the PCI reboot method References: <20140404064120.GB11877@gmail.com> <20140404080006.GB6944@gmail.com> <533EB5F1.8060002@linux.intel.com> <20140404151359.GB12370@srcf.ucam.org> <20140406184023.1e31412d@alan.etchedpixels.co.uk> <53419F84.2090204@zytor.com> <53425B2A.10001@linux.intel.com> <53431296.10502@zytor.com> <1396908292.4958.24.camel@adam.happyassassin.net> <5343220A.3060007@zytor.com> <1396912372.4958.41.camel@adam.happyassassin.net> In-Reply-To: <1396912372.4958.41.camel@adam.happyassassin.net> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 04/07/2014 04:12 PM, Adam Williamson wrote: > > basically, we know that we probably can't come up with a standard > fallback chain that will work for *every* system, and the goal instead > is to come up with the approach that requires the *fewest* quirks. > Not quite. The problem is that we can't test everything, so part of it isn't just about the amount of quirks but also our confidence level in them. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/