Re: [PATCH V2 0/6] Enable X-Gene platform reboot driver.

Feng Kan
2014-01-15T17:39:21Z

On Tue, Jan 14, 2014 at 8:07 AM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 07, 2014 at 02:50:35PM -0800, Feng Kan wrote:
>> Enable X-Gene platform driver for the X-Gene platform. Remove the
>> use of the mask attribute from the reboot dts node. Add support
>> for using the ACPI and DTS resource for the reboot driver.
>
> Why can't you just use the standard ACPI reboot register values in the
> FADT?
>
FKAN: I am removing the acpi patch in the next round. Mainly, I don't see a
way for the arm64 kernel to use those values. EFI in x86 have some runtime
services that can be triggered to call reset_system, but that code is not
available yet in arm64.

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