Re: [tip:x86/reboot] [PATCH] x86: Try the BIOS reboot method before the PCI reboot method

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 04/04/2014 08:13 AM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 09:38:57PM +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote:
> 
>> I don't think there is enough justification to revert the patch. We
>> introduce EFI into the default list, we didn't see any reason to remove
>> it out so far.
> 
> We should be using the EFI method, yes. But it seems that CF9 isn't 
> safe, so we should drop that.
> 

As I said, I'm willing to hear about production hardware having problems
before killing it off, but we should dig into the history of the past
removal.

	-hpa

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