Re: [PATCH] x86: default to reboot via ACPI

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Aug 27 2008 - 09:13:37 EST


On Wed 2008-08-27 13:51:41, Avi Kivity wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >I'd not count of this. When you relegate laptop to
> >"quiet home server"
> >role, the mechanical stresses suddenly stop, and I'd
> >expect it to
> >survive for long long years.
> >
>
> For every user who uses an old laptop as a home server,
> or has a "best MIPS64 box", there are maybe five million
> users with a 0-3 year old x86 computer (they don't know
> that it's really a "box").

Five million... um yes, probably, and those five million users run
Windows Vista...

So lets not introduce regressions, please.

(Anyway, the patch is probably good, but 'old machines do not matter'
is not.)
Pavel
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