Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2007-07-17 08:08:24, Aaron Durbin wrote: > On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-27 Thread Pavel Machek
On Tue 2007-07-17 08:08:24, Aaron Durbin wrote: On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:08:19 Aaron Durbin wrote: > This is true if SMIs are still flowing, and the SMI handler correctly handles > the reset properly. I have seen cases where the SMI handler is broken which > causes the system to perpetually

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:08:19 Aaron Durbin wrote: > This is true if SMIs are still flowing, and the SMI handler correctly handles > the reset properly. I have seen cases where the SMI handler is broken which > causes the system to perpetually hang. Ah, that is the rationale that was missing

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 16:39:52 Robert Hancock wrote: > 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 >

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/17/07, Yinghai Lu <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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. system without

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Hancock
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. Depends if Windows resets using this method, in

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Andi Kleen
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. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Andi Kleen
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. -Andi - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Robert Hancock
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. Depends if Windows resets using this method, in

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Yinghai Lu
On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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. system without

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/17/07, Yinghai Lu [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] 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

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 16:39:52 Robert Hancock wrote: 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

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Andi Kleen
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:08:19 Aaron Durbin wrote: This is true if SMIs are still flowing, and the SMI handler correctly handles the reset properly. I have seen cases where the SMI handler is broken which causes the system to perpetually hang. Ah, that is the rationale that was missing in

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-17 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/17/07, Andi Kleen [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 17 July 2007 17:08:19 Aaron Durbin wrote: This is true if SMIs are still flowing, and the SMI handler correctly handles the reset properly. I have seen cases where the SMI handler is broken which causes the system to perpetually

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/16/07, Shaohua Li <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 02:00 +0800, Aaron Durbin wrote: > > Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's > FADT table. We could have another command for 'reboot' kernel command line. I did this in a separate patch for

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 02:00 +0800, Aaron Durbin wrote: > > Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's > FADT table. We could have another command for 'reboot' kernel command line. Thanks, Shaohua - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/16/07, Arjan van de Ven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 11:00 -0700, Aaron Durbin wrote: > Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. > > Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 11:00 -0700, Aaron Durbin wrote: > Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. > > Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > --- > > diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile > index d4336f1..c9906a5 100644 > ---

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Arjan van de Ven
On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 11:00 -0700, Aaron Durbin wrote: Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile b/drivers/acpi/Makefile index d4336f1..c9906a5 100644 ---

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/16/07, Arjan van de Ven [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, 2007-07-16 at 11:00 -0700, Aaron Durbin wrote: Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. Signed-off-by: Aaron Durbin [EMAIL PROTECTED] --- diff --git a/drivers/acpi/Makefile

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Shaohua Li
On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 02:00 +0800, Aaron Durbin wrote: Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. We could have another command for 'reboot' kernel command line. Thanks, Shaohua - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line unsubscribe linux-kernel in the

Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

2007-07-16 Thread Aaron Durbin
On 7/16/07, Shaohua Li [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 2007-07-17 at 02:00 +0800, Aaron Durbin wrote: Add the ability to reset the machine using the RESET_REG in ACPI's FADT table. We could have another command for 'reboot' kernel command line. I did this in a separate patch for x86_64.