Bug#626022: [squeeze] Attempting to reboot on [U]EFI systems causes kernel hang

[Jonathan Nieder <jrnieder@gmail.com>]

tags 626022 - moreinfo + upstream patch pending
forwarded 626022 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel/1164407/focus=37824
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Ben Hutchings wrote:

> I bisected the fix to:
>
> commit f70e957cda22d309c769805cbb932407a5232219
> Author: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
> Date:   Wed Jul 6 16:52:37 2011 -0400
>
>     x86: Don't use the EFI reboot method by default
>
> which is basically equivalent to the workaround!
>
> I'll also apply this fix to squeeze as it's so simple.

Thanks!  Passed upstream, so hopefully kernel.org kernels will have
this fix soon, too.