On Fri, 4 Apr 2014 16:13:59 +0100 Matthew Garrett <mj...@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 04, 2014 at 09:38:57PM +0800, Li, Aubrey wrote: > > > I don't think there is enough justification to revert the patch. We > > introduce EFI into the default list, we didn't see any reason to remove > > it out so far. > > We should be using the EFI method, yes. But it seems that CF9 isn't > safe, so we should drop that. > Windows does not use CF9 and there are known, documented cases where CF9 will not work reliably. That includes reliable reboot on some Baytrail systems. (Erratum VLT60 and VLT62). So we really shouldn't be doing 0xCF9 except as a last resort if we are still alive and have been through the official reboot methods. Alan -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
