Ollie Lho <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> >
> > On 27 Jul 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > > I assume you want to just get the processor back into linuxBIOS and
> > > not, cause a full reboot of your system.
> >
> > what we've done here is figure out the code to make the whateverbridge
> > reset the machine. So you write to a register, and bang! machine
> > resets. We've got this for both poweroff and reset.
> >
> > But only for one chipset, sis 630.
> >
>
> Does not any other chipset support ACPI timer as SiS 630 ?? It should
> be pretty standard in M$ Win world.
The advantage in enabling a tripple fault to reboot the cpu
and reenter linuxBIOS is that you can then detect a tripple fault,
instead of having your cpu just hang.
Having linuxBIOS do a full system reboot at that point is a plus as
well that takes about 5 lines of code to add.
Eric
