From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S934324AbXGQPJK (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:09:10 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1758083AbXGQPIi (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:08:38 -0400 Received: from smtp-out.google.com ([216.239.45.13]:22998 "EHLO smtp-out.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S934185AbXGQPIh (ORCPT ); Tue, 17 Jul 2007 11:08:37 -0400 DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; s=beta; d=google.com; c=nofws; q=dns; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:cc:in-reply-to: mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding: content-disposition:references; b=SC8ArVVd6gaBTlsPP80l3tY/YoWb/2NomoIFxVvInPXyFjeoNJhcFYwIjgajDhfcG UF+iRyqnm+ix6Jjc3CpyQ== Message-ID: <8f95bb250707170808u5afee515y592c0a0ccafa95b2@mail.gmail.com> Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2007 08:08:24 -0700 From: "Aaron Durbin" To: "Andi Kleen" Subject: Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, len.brown@intel.com, akpm@osdl.org In-Reply-To: <200707171331.59414.ak@suse.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <20070716180019.GA5112@google.com> <200707171331.59414.ak@suse.de> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen wrote: > On Monday 16 July 2007 20:00:19 Aaron Durbin wrote: > > > > Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. > > Why? I had such a patch at some point as experiment, but it never > helped actually fix a box. I have a box here that it fixes, but I also don't see what it hurts. How much are you against the patch? If the keyboard controller won't work and there are issues using the triple fault, but if the RESET_REG is setup properly it will definitely reboot the machine as intended with no ill side effects. -Aaron