[RFC 0/5] restart cleanups

[linux@arm.linux.org.uk (Russell King - ARM Linux)]

On Fri, Nov 04, 2011 at 02:58:02PM +0100, Andrea Adami wrote:
> On Wed, Nov 2, 2011 at 3:49 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux
> <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote:
> >
> > On Wed, Nov 02, 2011 at 01:49:07PM +0000, Richard Purdie wrote:
> > > >From what I remember that hardware either always reboots or always
> > > halts. I think the option was therefore left hardcoded to make it clear
> > > it wasn't expected to work. Later Zaurii models could do either but
> > > required some manual poking of registers to make it happen iirc.
> > >
> > > Regardless, you can probably clean this up as you suggest now.
> >
> > Thanks, I've now committed a change which removes the indirection
> > entirely from poodle.
> >
> Hi, sorry for the late reply
> 
> I'm playing with poodle and I can confirm that poweroff does indeed
> not work with 2.6.3x kernels.
> See this thread:
> http://lists.linuxtogo.org/pipermail/zaurus-devel/2011-May/000501.html

Okay, at least we know that restart works with that.

I'm not offering to try and change the poweroff behaviour for the better,
as I know absolutely nothing about the Zaurus platforms.