Commit 162a5284 authored by Paul Gortmaker's avatar Paul Gortmaker Committed by Thomas Gleixner

x86/reboot: Document the "reboot=pci" option

It is mentioned in the top level non-arch specific file but it was
overlooked here for x86.
Signed-off-by: default avatarPaul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@windriver.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarThomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210530162447.996461-2-paul.gortmaker@windriver.com
parent 36a21d51
......@@ -126,7 +126,7 @@ Idle loop
Rebooting
=========
reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] [, [w]arm | [c]old]
reboot=b[ios] | t[riple] | k[bd] | a[cpi] | e[fi] | p[ci] [, [w]arm | [c]old]
bios
Use the CPU reboot vector for warm reset
warm
......@@ -145,6 +145,8 @@ Rebooting
Use efi reset_system runtime service. If EFI is not configured or
the EFI reset does not work, the reboot path attempts the reset using
the keyboard controller.
pci
Use a write to the PCI config space register 0xcf9 to trigger reboot.
Using warm reset will be much faster especially on big memory
systems because the BIOS will not go through the memory check.
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