Re: [PATCH] boot: small change of halt method

On Fri, 25 Aug 2006, Oleg Verych wrote:

H. Peter Anvin wrote:

 Andrew Brukhov wrote:

>  I'm new here.
>  After reading boot code i'm immidiatly change this string:

...

> + * Small fix of halt method Andrew Brukhov, Aug. 2006 > */ >

<http://www.zip.com.au/~akpm/linux/patches/stuff/tpp.txt>

     while (1)
         asm volatile("hlt");

 ... since HLT only pauses until interrupt.

Why not to have a reboot here?
Testing and getting such errors on my laptop, it needs a power cycle.

And what if hlt is buggy? I have at least one pIII tualatin based server that has some strange mainboard problem and will work only if nohlt is passed to the kernel.

Thanks,

Grzegorz Kulewski

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