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

Vasily Khoruzhick anarsoul at gmail.com
Sat Mar 12 15:33:27 EST 2011


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.
 
> 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.

Regards,
Vasily



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