From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Michael D Labriola <mlabriol@gdeb.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Kushal Koolwal <kushalkoolwal@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, michael.d.labriola@gmail.com,
support@versalogic.com, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
x86@kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reboot hangs on VersaLogic Ocelot
Date: Tue, 17 Jan 2012 09:57:56 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20120117085756.GB7612@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20120116212938.GB6313@srcf.ucam.org>
* Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 16, 2012 at 12:20:45PM -0500, Michael D Labriola wrote:
> > Actually, assuming we fix the bios= argument ignored by DMI
> > scan problem, would it be better to change the VersaLogic
> > quirk to acpi even though it's not necessary right now? If
> > the default reboot method ever switches from acpi to kbd or
> > bios, these boards will hang on reboot again...
>
> A lot of hardware relies on the acpi method being used. I
> don't see us changing the default for x86 when booted via
> BIOS.
Yeah, i don't think we'll ever again switch away from ACPI being
the default for currently existing hardware.
(Far-)future hardware might have different defaults, but that
won't affect hardware that exists today.
Thanks,
Ingo
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-01-17 8:58 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-01-13 16:10 Michael D Labriola
2012-01-16 7:53 ` Ingo Molnar
2012-01-16 16:51 ` Michael D Labriola
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2012-01-16 17:20 ` Michael D Labriola
2012-01-16 21:29 ` Matthew Garrett
2012-01-17 8:57 ` Ingo Molnar [this message]
2012-01-17 14:22 ` Michael D Labriola
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2012-01-17 15:24 ` Michael D Labriola
2012-01-16 21:30 ` Matthew Garrett
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