Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S264403AbTEJPgY (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 11:36:24 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S264404AbTEJPgY (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 11:36:24 -0400 Received: from pc2-cwma1-4-cust86.swan.cable.ntl.com ([213.105.254.86]:21648 "EHLO lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S264403AbTEJPgW (ORCPT ); Sat, 10 May 2003 11:36:22 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Use correct x86 reboot vector From: Alan Cox To: CaT Cc: Andi Kleen , Linus Torvalds , Linux Kernel Mailing List In-Reply-To: <20030510033504.GA1789@zip.com.au> References: <20030510025634.GA31713@averell> <20030510033504.GA1789@zip.com.au> Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Organization: Message-Id: <1052578182.16166.6.camel@dhcp22.swansea.linux.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 (1.2.2-5) Date: 10 May 2003 15:49:43 +0100 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 858 Lines: 20 On Sad, 2003-05-10 at 04:35, CaT wrote: > On Sat, May 10, 2003 at 04:56:34AM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > Extensive discussion by various experts on the discuss@x86-64.org > > mailing list concluded that the correct vector to restart an 286+ > > CPU is f000:fff0, not ffff:0000. Both seem to work on current systems, > > but the first is correct. > > Could this bug, by any chance, cause a system to shutdown instead of > rebooting? This is what happens to me at the moment but not each and > every time. Unlikely. But try it and see 8) At least some SMP boxes freak if you do a poweroff request on CPU != 0 - 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/