Re: [PATCH] x86, reboot: skip DMI checks if reboot set by user

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/19/2012 11:14 AM, Michael D Labriola wrote:
>>
>> Yes, and such a patch would be appreciated.
>>
>> The reason it is as it is dates back to before the 32-64 bit 
>> unification, as far as I know.
>>
>> (BIOS reboot is currently not supported on 64 bits, mainly.)
> 
> Well, that does complicate it a bit.  I'll gin something up and see what
> you think.  I guess it will involve having an #ifdef CONFIG_X86_32 block
> inside a single dmi_table structure for the BIOS quirks.
> 
> Actually, set_kbd_reboot is inside the current X86_32 only block, along
> with the one DMI callback that uses it.  Is this correct?
> 

Probably not, although I suspect most of the users of that are 32-bit
only systems.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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