From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: anarsoul@gmail.com (Vasily Khoruzhick) Date: Sat, 12 Mar 2011 22:33:27 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 5/8] ARM: PXA: Z2: Add poweroff function In-Reply-To: <201103121416.19327.marek.vasut@gmail.com> References: <1299839023-16601-1-git-send-email-anarsoul@gmail.com> <201103121330.22949.anarsoul@gmail.com> <201103121416.19327.marek.vasut@gmail.com> Message-ID: <201103122233.27282.anarsoul@gmail.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org 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