From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030613AbVKXH0O (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:26:14 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030615AbVKXH0O (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:26:14 -0500 Received: from mail.metronet.co.uk ([213.162.97.75]:25729 "EHLO mail.metronet.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030613AbVKXH0O (ORCPT ); Thu, 24 Nov 2005 02:26:14 -0500 From: Alistair John Strachan To: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [PATCH] Reboot through the BIOS on newer HP laptops Date: Thu, 24 Nov 2005 07:26:16 +0000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20051124052107.GA28070@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20051124052107.GA28070@srcf.ucam.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200511240726.16669.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 24 November 2005 05:21, Matthew Garrett wrote: > Newer HP laptops (nc4200, nc6xxx, nc8xxx) hang on reboot with a standard > configuration. Passing reboot=b makes them work. This patch adds a DMI > quirk that defaults them to this mode, and doesn't appear to have any > adverse affects on older HPs. Might be better to specify machines that actually have this issue. My NC6000 does not have any reboot issues with current or prior kernels, and such a change risks regressing that. -- Cheers, Alistair. 'No sense being pessimistic, it probably wouldn't work anyway.' Third year Computer Science undergraduate. 1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.