[syslinux] Domain-specific HLT when idle

[H. Peter Anvin]

Sebastian Herbszt wrote:
> Ferenc Wagner wrote:
>> Dag Wieers <dag at wieers.com> writes:
>>
>>> In our case we do CD-based anaconda installations that (on success)
>>> automatically reboot. Since we cannot eject these virtual ISO images
>>> they wait on the isolinux bootprompt after this reboot.
>>
>> AFAIK at least Xen can be configured to shut down a domain on
>> reboot.  Isn't this an option for you?
> 
> And QEMU got "-no-reboot      exit instead of rebooting". Didn't find
> anything
> similar for VMware tho.
> 

By the way, I don't want to imply I'm not considering this a serious
issue.  However, reliability is paramount, which makes this "a hard
problem" and I need to think hard about it.  It's almost certainly not
going to be on the list for 3.80.

	-hpa (which still remembers the nightmare caused by ARP polling
              when idle...)

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.