Messages in this thread |  | | From | Paul Gortmaker <> | Subject | [PATCH 0/3] x86/reboot: update docs and limit O990 quirk scope. | Date | Sun, 30 May 2021 12:24:44 -0400 |
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When using an older Dell Optiplex 990 for boot testing, I found it quite annoying that the stupid thing would power right down and then turn on again a second or two later on every "normal" reboot.
After a bit of investigation, I found that it wasn't the machine that was at fault, but that we had put in a reboot quirk about 10y ago when the platform was new, and never bothered to check back if it was required after the vendor did the first year worth of BIOS updates.
Along the way I found that we never properly documented how to avoid using the reboot quirks, or the reboot=pci option so I fixed that too.
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Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Cc: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> Cc: Michael D Labriola <michael.d.labriola@gmail.com> Cc: Rafael J. Wysocki <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: Thomas Renninger <trenn@suse.de> Cc: x86@kernel.org
Paul Gortmaker (3): x86/reboot: document the "reboot=pci" option x86/reboot: document how to override DMI platform quirks x86/reboot: Limit Dell Optiplex 990 quirk to early BIOS versions
Documentation/admin-guide/kernel-parameters.txt | 2 +- Documentation/x86/x86_64/boot-options.rst | 11 ++++++++++- arch/x86/kernel/reboot.c | 3 ++- 3 files changed, 13 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
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