[PATCH] Automatic RAM detection for VT8601
ron minnich
rminnich at lanl.gov
Tue May 20 08:50:01 CEST 2003
On Tue, 20 May 2003, SONE Takeshi wrote:
> Linux's reboot code sometimes doesn't work for some reason.
> (I think it resets only CPU)
the linux reboot code is very strange and I determined a few years ago
that most of it doesn't work; rebooting seems to happen mostly through the
triple fault scenario.
> I wrote a small program to directly hit the power management device
> found in EPIA to reset the system, not only CPU.
that's far and away the best way to reset a system.
The most acceptable way (nowadays) to integrate that into the kernel is as
part of watchdog timer support. However it might be worth integrating into
the power off/reset patches in freebios source tree.
ron
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