i386 cpu_reset_real: code/comment mismatch

Andriy Gapon avg at icyb.net.ua
Tue May 20 18:58:59 UTC 2008


on 20/05/2008 18:24 John Baldwin said the following:
> On Tuesday 20 May 2008 09:37:54 am Andriy Gapon wrote:
>> BTW, I understand that there is a difference between hard and soft reset
>> in terms of hardware signals being asserted, but I don't quite
>> understand general consequences. I.e. what is a practical difference
>> between hard and soft reset?
> 
> I've no idea.  It may be that we should just always do a hard reset as that is 
> in effect what both Solaris and Linux do.  I'll probably just change it to do 
> that.

But I think it is already how the code works (maybe with extra port 
write that couldn't hurt anything).

-- 
Andriy Gapon


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