Re: [PATCH] Reboot through the BIOS on newer HP laptops

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Nov 24, 2005 at 07:26:16AM +0000, Alistair John Strachan wrote:
> On Thursday 24 November 2005 05:21, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > Newer HP laptops (nc4200, nc6xxx, nc8xxx) hang on reboot with a standard
> > configuration. Passing reboot=b makes them work. This patch adds a DMI
> > quirk that defaults them to this mode, and doesn't appear to have any
> > adverse affects on older HPs.
> 
> Might be better to specify machines that actually have this issue. My NC6000 
> does not have any reboot issues with current or prior kernels, and such a 
> change risks regressing that.

This works fine with the NC6000, and every other HP-Compaq I've been 
able to test it on (which is quite a few). The alternative is really 
quite a long list.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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