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From: Grzegorz Kulewski <kangur@polcom.net>
To: Oleg Verych <olecom@flower.upol.cz>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, pingved@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] boot: small change of halt method
Date: Thu, 24 Aug 2006 23:14:57 +0200 (CEST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0608242312570.14363@alpha.polcom.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <44EE2228.5020807@flower.upol.cz>

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Oleg Verych wrote:
> H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>>  Andrew Brukhov wrote:
>> 
>> >  I'm new here.
>> >  After reading boot code i'm immidiatly change this string:
> ...
>> >  + * Small fix of halt method Andrew Brukhov, Aug. 2006 
>> >  */
>> > 
> <http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt>
>
>>
>>      while (1)
>>          asm volatile("hlt");
>>
>>  ... since HLT only pauses until interrupt.
>> 
> Why not to have a reboot here?
> Testing and getting such errors on my laptop, it needs a power cycle.

And what if hlt is buggy? I have at least one pIII tualatin based server 
that has some strange mainboard problem and will work only if nohlt is 
passed to the kernel.


Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski


  reply	other threads:[~2006-08-24 21:15 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-08-24 18:44 Andrew Brukhov
2006-08-24 19:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-24 22:03   ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-24 21:14     ` Grzegorz Kulewski [this message]
2006-08-24 21:25     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-08-24 22:56       ` Oleg Verych
2006-08-24 22:20         ` H. Peter Anvin

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