Re: [Xen-devel] [patch]Add a new reboot method

[Keir Fraser <keir.fraser@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On 29/5/08 15:59, "Alan Cox" <alan@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

>> ACPI *can* be involved in rebooting though, via FADT's RESET_REGISTER.
>> Question is: why does Linux ignore this reboot method?
> 
> It doesn't. Well at the least upstream version doesn't. We default to
> keyboard currently but that probably wants reconsidering for modern
> systems.

Well, I have to disagree. Looks to me like ACPI reboot is supposed to be
implemented by acpi_reboot() and looking at 2.6.26-rc4 that function is
still stubbed out. Am I missing something?

 -- Keir



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