From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753805AbaDDP32 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:29:28 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:49676 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752998AbaDDP30 (ORCPT ); Fri, 4 Apr 2014 11:29:26 -0400 Message-ID: <533ECFB0.9060903@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 04 Apr 2014 08:28:48 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.4.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Matthew Garrett , "Li, Aubrey" CC: Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@linux-foundation.org, rostedt@goodmis.org, tglx@linutronix.de, linux-tip-commits@vger.kernel.org, Adam Williamson Subject: Re: [tip:x86/reboot] [PATCH] x86: Try the BIOS reboot method before the PCI reboot method References: <20140404064120.GB11877@gmail.com> <20140404080006.GB6944@gmail.com> <533EB5F1.8060002@linux.intel.com> <20140404151359.GB12370@srcf.ucam.org> In-Reply-To: <20140404151359.GB12370@srcf.ucam.org> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.6 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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