[PATCH v3] watchdog: bcm2835: Fix poweroff behaviour

Guenter Roeck linux at roeck-us.net
Sun Sep 13 12:54:59 PDT 2015


On 09/13/2015 12:26 PM, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>
> Den 18.06.2015 05:58, skrev Guenter Roeck:
>> On 06/17/2015 07:04 AM, Noralf Trønnes wrote:
>>> Currently poweroff/halt results in a reboot on the Raspberry Pi.
>>> The firmware uses the RSTS register to know which partiton to
>>> boot from. The partiton value is spread into bits
>>> 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Partiton 63 is a special partition used by
>>> the firmware to indicate halt.
>>>
>>> The firmware made this change in 19 Aug 2013 and was matched
>>> by the downstream commit:
>>> Changes for new NOOBS multi partition booting from gsh
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Noralf Trønnes <noralf at tronnes.org>
>>
>> Reviewed-by: Guenter Roeck <linux at roeck-us.net>
>>
>
> It seems that this has slipped through the cracks, at least it didn't
> enter in the 4.3 merge window.
>

Yes, completely. It slipped through my cracks as well :-(.

Guenter




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