Date: Sun, 3 Jan 2010 15:03:00 -0800
From: Arjan van de Ven <arjan@infradead.org>
To: Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com>
Cc: Christian Hofstaedtler <ch@zeha.at>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       bruce.w.allan@intel.com
Subject: Re: Linux* is not supported on the Intel(R) Desktop Board DP55KG -
 Kernel still hangs upon reboot.
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On Sun, 3 Jan 2010 16:40:38 -0500 (EST)
Justin Piszcz <jpiszcz@lucidpixels.com> wrote:

> 
> 
> On Sun, 3 Jan 2010, Christian Hofstaedtler wrote:
> 
> > Hi,
> >
> > In regard to the DP55KG board having reboot [1] and HPET [2] issues,
> > have you seen any fixes (from Intel?) for these problems?
> >
> > I now own such a board and see the same stuff on a distro-patched
> > 2.6.31.6.
> >
> > Thanks,
> >  Christian
> >
> > [1] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/903161/
> > [2] http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/913374
> >
> > -- 
> > christian hofstaedtler
> >
> 
> Hello Christian,
> 
> The work around for the reboot [1] issue is append this to your
> kernel boot options in lilo/grub:
> 
> reboot=a

btw this can be automated... just needs a DMI quirk.
someone needs to get dmidecode output and add it to the existing
table of reboot= quirks...


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