Re: [patch] x86: Introduce BOOT_EFI and BOOT_CF9 into the reboot sequence loop

[H. Peter Anvin]

True... trying cf9_cond with low priority probably makes sense.

On March 1, 2014 12:21:39 PM PST, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 12:06:39PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
>
>> Be careful.  This is *exactly* what I tried back in checkin
>> 14d7ca5c575853664d8fe4f225a77b8df1b7de7d.  We had to back that out
>quite
>> quickly.
>
>It's the difference between trying it before the keyboard controller
>and 
>trying it after the keyboard controller and ACPI. It seems that it
>broke 
>some systems where the keyboard controller worked - if we've hit the 
>keyboard controller and ACPI twice, and the system is still alive, and 
>if we have standard PCI ports, it doesn't seem like poking them is 
>likely to make anything actively worse.

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