Re: [PATCH]X86:reboot.c Add some dmi entries topci_reboot_dmi_table.

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Jun 02, 2010 at 07:15:36PM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> as soon as I change:
>
> int main() {
> 	iopl(3);
> 	outb(6, 0xcf9);
> 	usleep(100);
> 	outb(6, 0xcf9);
> 	return 0;
> }
> (the above gave a command prompt
> with numerous tries)

Ok, so it's not that straghtforward. Sigh. There's various hacky 
workarounds we could do here, but Windows doesn't seem to do them so I 
lean towards suspecting that there's something wrong with our keyboard 
controller reboot mechanism. I'll try doing some more tracing.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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