x86: attempt reboot via port CF9 if we have standard PCI ports

Impact: Changes reboot behavior.

If port CF9 seems to be safe to touch, attempt it before trying the
keyboard controller.  Port CF9 is not available on all chipsets (a
significant but decreasing number of modern chipsets don't implement
it), but port CF9 itself should in general be safe to poke (no ill
effects if unimplemented) on any system which has PCI Configuration
Method #1 or #2, as it falls inside the PCI configuration port range
in both cases.  No chipset without PCI is known to have port CF9,
either, although an explicit "pci=bios" would mean we miss this and
therefore don't use port CF9.  An explicit "reboot=pci" can be used to
force the use of port CF9.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
This commit is contained in:
H. Peter Anvin
2008-11-11 16:19:48 -08:00
parent d3ec5cae09
commit 14d7ca5c57
4 changed files with 34 additions and 9 deletions

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@@ -8,7 +8,9 @@ enum reboot_type {
BOOT_BIOS = 'b',
#endif
BOOT_ACPI = 'a',
BOOT_EFI = 'e'
BOOT_EFI = 'e',
BOOT_CF9 = 'p',
BOOT_CF9_COND = 'q',
};
extern enum reboot_type reboot_type;