| From stable-bounces@linux.kernel.org Fri Jun 1 01:04:33 2007 |
| From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@ubuntu.com> |
| Date: Fri, 01 Jun 2007 00:46:40 -0700 |
| Subject: Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug |
| To: torvalds@linux-foundation.org |
| Cc: tim.gardner@ubuntu.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org, Matt_Domsch@dell.com, stable@kernel.org, ak@suse.de |
| Message-ID: <200706010746.l517kdxp005490@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> |
| |
| |
| From: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@ubuntu.com> |
| |
| Force Dell E520 to use the BIOS to shutdown/reboot. |
| |
| I have at least one report that this patch fixes shutdown/reboot |
| problems on the Dell E520 platform. |
| |
| (Andi says: People can always set the boot option. It hardly seems like a |
| critical issue needing a backport.) |
| |
| Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner@ubuntu.com> |
| Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> |
| Acked-by: Matt Domsch <Matt_Domsch@dell.com> |
| Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> |
| Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de> |
| Signed-off-by: Chris Wright <chrisw@sous-sol.org> |
| |
| |
| --- |
| arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c | 8 ++++++++ |
| 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+) |
| |
| --- linux-2.6.21.4.orig/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c |
| +++ linux-2.6.21.4/arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c |
| @@ -88,6 +88,14 @@ static int __init set_bios_reboot(struct |
| } |
| |
| static struct dmi_system_id __initdata reboot_dmi_table[] = { |
| + { /* Handle problems with rebooting on Dell E520's */ |
| + .callback = set_bios_reboot, |
| + .ident = "Dell E520", |
| + .matches = { |
| + DMI_MATCH(DMI_SYS_VENDOR, "Dell Inc."), |
| + DMI_MATCH(DMI_PRODUCT_NAME, "Dell DM061"), |
| + }, |
| + }, |
| { /* Handle problems with rebooting on Dell 1300's */ |
| .callback = set_bios_reboot, |
| .ident = "Dell PowerEdge 1300", |
