Re: [PATCH] ACPI: Add reboot mechanism

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Tue Jul 17 2007 - 11:46:50 EST


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 the first mail ...
Ok that makes some sense. Is it a common issue?

-Andi
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