Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [patch] x86: Introduce BOOT_EFI and BOOT_CF9 into the reboot sequence loop | From | "H. Peter Anvin" <> | Date | Sat, 01 Mar 2014 18:35:18 -0800 |
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Of course. It is primarily a testing problem - we just don't have a compatibility lab to test a bunch of strange hardware.
On March 1, 2014 6:23:34 PM PST, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote: >On Sat, Mar 01, 2014 at 06:07:18PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > >> We obviously have been over this a number of times, and the sad thing >is >> that we have very limited information. It is more complex than that, >> even... I believe in some cases KBD works but it is slow, and so >takes a >> while. > >And we still have the problem that the keyboard controller sometimes >triggers SMM and that then hangs when it hits a piece of hardware in a >state it doesn't expect. Sometimes reboot=b or reboot=p is just working > >around some assumptions that we could fix more convincingly.
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