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From: Anand Gadiyar <gadiyar@ti.com>
Subject: RE: pandaboard can't reboot on 2.6.38-rc2?
Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2011 10:28:00 +0530
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Bob Liu wrote:
> Hi, folks
>
> I am using pandaboard and compiled a 2.6.38-rc2 kernel for it.
> Everything works fine except that it can't reboot.
>
> #reboot
> #
> The system is going down NOW!
> Sent SIGTERM to all processes
> Sent SIGKILL to all processes
> Requesting system reboot
> [  120.742370] Restarting system.
>
> Then hanged...
>
> Has anyone seen similar problem?

As a quick workaround, turn off CONFIG_ARCH_OMAP2 and
rebuild the kernel. That should get you functional reboots.

Looks like something in the asm code is messed up when building
with OMAP2 support - I don't understand it well enough to solve
it, but maybe this is a data point for people that do know
the code better.

- Anand