[PATCH 15/15] Revert "x86: default to reboot via ACPI"

Ingo Molnar mingo at elte.hu
Thu Nov 6 02:14:45 EST 2008


* Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com> wrote:

> This reverts commit c7ffa6c26277b403920e2255d10df849bd613380.
> 
> Now that we have the hooks to disable virtualization on
> emergency_restart(), we can get back to the BOOT_KBD reboot_type default.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Eduardo Habkost <ehabkost at redhat.com>

hm, why revert this? There's nothing wrong with the ACPI reboot 
method, it's just that we surprise the BIOS by exiting with an unclean 
VMX state in certain circumstances.

if the ACPI reboot method does not work we do the KBD method as the 
next thing in the reboot chain.

	Ingo



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