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.
Eric
