"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
>
> Ronald G Minnich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>
> > On 21 Jun 2001, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >
> > > I don't know what the current recommended procedure for rebooting is,
> > > there was a big discussion about it a while ago, but I didn't track it.
> >
> > For linux restart and power down I put in extensions to the restart code
> > that supports tracking down devices by PCI vendor and id. For the first
> > match, a function can be called which either resets or powers down the
> > machine.
> >
> > It seems to work fine, I think Ollie put it into the standard patchset for
> > SiS for Linux.
>
> O.k. that was the piece I was missing I'll have to track that down and see.
> At first glance it looks like port 0xcf9 will work on a number of chipsets,
> not the sis chipsets but a lot of the others. So it might be a good
> way to make it work. Ollie's usage of a watchdog timer makes a lot of
> sense as well.
>
Actually, it is pretty standard for ACPI BIOS to reboot/halt system this
way. BTW, what the hell is port 0xcf9 ?? Is that just 0xcf8 for PCI
config
space ??
Ollie
