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Work around Dell E520 BIOS reboot bug

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>
Cc: <stable@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Tim Gardner 18 years ago
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arch/i386/kernel/reboot.c

@@ -89,6 +89,14 @@ static int __init set_bios_reboot(struct dmi_system_id *d)
 }
 
 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",