[PATCH 5/8] ARM: PXA: Z2: Add poweroff function

Marek Vasut marek.vasut at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 15:35:15 EST 2011


On Saturday 12 March 2011 21:33:27 Vasily Khoruzhick wrote:
> On Saturday 12 March 2011 15:16:19 Marek Vasut wrote:
> > What about blob and other bootloaders. U-Boot isn't the only one running
> > on that device, right ?
> 
> There's only blob binary for this device (with default firmware). I doubt
> anyone tried to build blob from sources with Aeronix' patches.

I did :)

> 
> > Besides, this is nonsense, you're doing a hack and you're trying to
> > justify it. You cannot powerdown the device, period. You should rather
> > patch the bootloader to implement this para-powerdown behaviour than
> > bloat kernel with this workaround.
> 
> I'm OK with this out of tree patch. I don't do bootloader hacking without
> ability to unbrick device.

Hmmmmmm

> 
> Regards,
> Vasily



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