Re: [PATCH v2] x86/reboot/quirks: Add GIGABYTE BRIX BXBT-2807 reboot quirk

[Dan Nicholson]

On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 11:49 AM Borislav Petkov <bp@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Dec 10, 2020 at 12:19:46PM +0800, Chris Chiu wrote:
> > From: Dan Nicholson <nicholson@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > The GIGABYTE BRIX BXBT-2807 always hangs with the normal acpi
> > reboot.
>
> Is that what the "hard disk crash" in the comment below, refers to?

Hmm, when I wrote this patch several years back there wasn't any hang
when rebooting. According to our internal bug tracker, you could hear
the disk head crashing on reboot. The workaround was to do a BIOS
reboot rather than an ACPI reboot. My original commit message was:

    x86/reboot: Use bios reboot for GIGABYTE BRIX BXBT-2807

    Using ACPI, the hard disk crashes on reboot. This seems to be avoided
    when using the BIOS to reboot.

I don't know if this became a hang with more recent kernels as
described in this commit message. Chris?

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Dan