Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757384AbYHZL0e (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:26:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753998AbYHZL0Z (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:26:25 -0400 Received: from one.firstfloor.org ([213.235.205.2]:45400 "EHLO one.firstfloor.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753281AbYHZL0Y (ORCPT ); Tue, 26 Aug 2008 07:26:24 -0400 To: Pavel Machek Cc: Avi Kivity , Ingo Molnar , "Eric W. Biederman" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kvm@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI From: Andi Kleen References: <1219659087-17536-1-git-send-email-avi@qumranet.com> <20080826095032.GA309@elf.ucw.cz> Date: Tue, 26 Aug 2008 13:26:18 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20080826095032.GA309@elf.ucw.cz> (Pavel Machek's message of "Tue, 26 Aug 2008 11:50:32 +0200") Message-ID: <871w0ct3tx.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> User-Agent: Gnus/5.1008 (Gnus v5.10.8) Emacs/21.3 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 577 Lines: 17 Pavel Machek writes: > > "ACPI" and "safe" in one sentence. ACPI is safe in that a lot of systems won't even boot anymore without ACPI. > /me bets this will break lot of machines. The ACPI reboot is just a write to a IO port with a fallback, so it should be fairly safe even if the field should be wrong. -Andi -- 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/