On 10/12/2013 12:41 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Sat, Oct 12, 2013 at 12:28 PM, Matthew Garrett
> <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> The most likely cause of the problem that we're seeing here is that we're
>> leaving the hardware in a state that isn't compatible with assumptions made
>> by Dell's SMM code. We've certainly seen that some previous Dell machines
>> have made incorrect assumptions about VT-d, which probably means that we
>> should be destroying that state before reboot. David Woodhouse had been
>> looking into that - I don't know whether we ever actually merged anything to
>> do so.
>
> I have access to one of the affected Dell systems, so I'm willing to
> try patches..
>
The Dell machines definitely use some kind of SMM to reboot.
-hpa
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
