Re: [PATCH] bcb: Android bootloader control block driver

[Greg KH <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>]

On Sat, Jul 07, 2012 at 03:39:09PM -0700, Colin Cross wrote:
> On many (most?) ARM SoCs, the reboot flag is not stored on disk, or
> anywhere else userspace can access.  It is stored in a power
> management controller scratch register that survives resets, or a
> register in an external I2C PMIC, or in internal SoC RAM (I've seen
> all of these).  For your proposal, every SoC would need a custom API
> to save the reboot flag somewhere.  For these devices, it clearly
> makes more sense to use something like the REBOOT2 API, and if we have
> to use it on some devices, it makes no sense to me to not use it on
> other devices just because userspace could theoretically handle it.

That's fine, but that is not what this patch did at all.

Propose a patch that handles writing to those types of registers and we
will be glad to review it.

thanks,

greg k-h