Re: [ibm-acpi-devel] [PATCH] Remove 9 second reboot delay on Lenovo T400/T500

[Henrique de Moraes Holschuh <hmh@hmh.eng.br>]

On Fri, 16 Jul 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, Jul 15, 2010 at 08:00:23PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> > Do you want to escalate this to Lenovo?  I need a clear and consise
> > description of the problem and the boxes we know to be affected.
> 
> Well, right now we're not doing precisely what Windows does. The other 
> possibility is that when the keyboard controller write triggers some SMM 
> code, it makes an assumption about some piece of hardware state that 
> isn't true and loops for a while to see if it changes. If we knew what 
> that was then we could ensure that we're performing the same state 
> change on our way down to reboot.
> 
> One thing that would be worth checking is whether performing the 
> keyboard controller writes from userspace with a minimal kernel and 
> init=/bin/bash shows the 9-second pause or not - and then, ideally, see 
> whether the same is also true under DOS.

I can't help much there, as the only hardware I have is a ThinkPad T43.

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  Henrique Holschuh