On Mon, Dec 11, 2000 at 03:53:26PM -0700, Ronald G Minnich wrote:
> On Mon, 11 Dec 2000, Levi Khatskevitch wrote:
>
> > I see that software reset (like 'reboot') doesn't work with linuxbios. Is it a
> > known issue? Can it theoreticaly be fixed?
>
> it's easy to fix as soon as I can figure out the interface between linux
> and linuxbios. Any suggestions? I was actually thinking of having a
> /proc/chipset, with entries like
> reboot
> reset
>
> and so on, so that (e.g.) writing a 1 to /proc/chipset/reboot will cause a
> reboot.
Isn't that over-engineering the problem a little bit? I mean, you could
probably add less than ten lines of code to machine_restart() that would
cover all the motherboards linuxbios can boot. And if that doesn't work,
it's pretty easy for a user to add their own.
And wouldn't access to reboot from /proc mean that the system would
shutdown prematurely? Since init will call the reboot syscall when it's
time to reboot, why would you want to add an alternate mechanism?
Eric
