Re: [PATCH]X86:reboot.c Add some dmi entries to pci_reboot_dmi_table.

[Justin P. Mattock]

On 06/01/2010 02:48 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 01, 2010 at 02:43:12PM -0700, Justin P. Mattock wrote:
> > On 06/01/2010 02:29 PM, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > So, just to be clear, you run this as root and it immediately returns
> > > you to the prompt? This seems unlikely.
> >
> > yep.. with the above code
> > I (save to a file) then
> > non-root gcc reboot.c -o reboot
> > then su
> > ./reboot
> > just bake to the command prompt
>
> Are you running some sort of security policy that might block hardware
> access? I'm going to have to find one of these machines to test with -
> on everything I have here, the cf9 write and the keyboard controller
> write both generate reboots. The worst case should be a hung machine,
> not one that continues running...


yeah I just checked
/usr/sbin/sestatus has everything in permissive
mode. as for the system it's fedora 13

as for testing on this machine
if your in Ventura county let me know

Justin P. Mattock
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