[PATCH v1 0/6] misc: add reboot mode driver

[Alexandre Belloni]

Hi,

On 22/12/2015 at 17:02:29 +0800, Andy Yan wrote :
> 
> This driver parse the reboot commands like "reboot loader"
> and "reboot recovery" to get a boot mode described in the
> device tree , then call the vendor specific write interfae
> to store the boot mode in some place like special register
> or sram , which can be read by the bootloader after system
> reboot.
> 
> This is commonly done on Android based devices, in order to
> reboot the device into fastboot or recovery mode.
> 
> Before this patch , I have try some hack on[0], and then found
> John Stultz also doing the same work[1].
> 
> As John is busy these days, I go on with this work.
> 
> [0]https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7647751/
> [1]https://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/7802391/
> 
> Changes in v1:
> - fix the embarrassed compile warning
> - correct the maskrom magic number
> - check for the normal reboot
> - correct the maskrom magic number
> - use macro defined in rockchip_boot-mode.h for reboot-mode DT node
> 
> Andy Yan (6):
>   dt-bindings: misc: add document for reboot-mode driver
>   dt-bindings: soc: add document for rockchip reboot-mode driver
>   misc: add reboot mode driver
>   soc: rockchip: add reboot mode driver
>   ARM: dts: rockchip: add reboot-mode node
>   ARM64: dts: rockchip: add reboot-mode node
> 

This seems nice and useful, some further ideas:

>  .../devicetree/bindings/misc/reboot-mode.txt       | 41 +++++++++
>  .../bindings/soc/rockchip/rockchip,reboot-mode.txt | 39 +++++++++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3288.dtsi                      | 26 ++++++
>  arch/arm/boot/dts/rk3xxx.dtsi                      | 26 ++++++
>  arch/arm64/boot/dts/rockchip/rk3368.dtsi           | 26 ++++++
>  drivers/misc/Kconfig                               |  7 ++
>  drivers/misc/Makefile                              |  1 +
>  drivers/misc/reboot_mode.c                         | 96 ++++++++++++++++++++++

I think this actually belongs to drivers/power/reset/ instead of misc

>  drivers/soc/rockchip/Kconfig                       |  9 ++
>  drivers/soc/rockchip/Makefile                      |  1 +
>  drivers/soc/rockchip/reboot.c                      | 68 +++++++++++++++

And maybe that part could be made generic instead of rockchip specific.
It simply uses a regmap to do the accesses, I guess a lot of other
platforms will do that. We have syscon-reboot and syscon-poweroff for example.

I think then we can extend the "framework" by having generic drivers to
store the value in eeprom or nvram for example.

-- 
Alexandre Belloni, Free Electrons
Embedded Linux, Kernel and Android engineering
http://free-electrons.com