[SeaBIOS] [PATCH 0/2] Improve reboot races during post and reboot

[Kevin O'Connor]

On Tue, Jan 12, 2016 at 02:57:25PM -0500, Kevin O'Connor wrote:
> This is a follow up to an email chain that in November:
> 
>   http://www.seabios.org/pipermail/seabios/2015-November/009887.html
> 
> It was possible for the SeaBIOS code to get confused if an external
> reboot request occurs while seabios is already in the process of
> handling a boot or reboot.
> 
> This two patch series attempts to make the SeaBIOS reboot code more
> robust.  With these patches the code maintains an invariant - if
> HaveRunPost is false then the BIOS code will be in a pristine state
> and it is okay to run the "post" boot logic; if HaveRunPost is true
> then the reboot logic must be run before starting the "post" boot
> logic.  The reboot handler should always return the BIOS code to a
> pristine state prior to clearing HaveRunPost.

FYI, I committed this series.

-Kevin