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

Avi Kivity avi at redhat.com
Sun Nov 9 05:11:03 EST 2008


Matthew Garrett wrote:
> Hmm. But we're seeing some machines that end up very confused if 
> rebooted via ACPI. I guess we need to run Vista on them to find out how 
> they behave. What OSI strings did your KVM setup expose? We know that 
> Windows changes behaviour under various circumstances depending on which 
> OS the firmware requests, so it's almost possible that this is another 
> of those cases.
>   

Isn't it the other way around?  The firmware changes behavior depending 
on how the OS identifies itself?

Reboot is a fixed feature IIRC, so it cannot change depending on 
identification strings.

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