Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 17 Jun 2015 20:08:31 -0600 | From | Stephen Warren <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH v3] watchdog: bcm2835: Fix poweroff behaviour |
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On 06/17/2015 08:04 AM, Noralf Trønnes wrote: > Currently poweroff/halt results in a reboot on the Raspberry Pi. > The firmware uses the RSTS register to know which partiton to > boot from. The partiton value is spread into bits > 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10. Partiton 63 is a special partition used by > the firmware to indicate halt. > > The firmware made this change in 19 Aug 2013 and was matched > by the downstream commit: > Changes for new NOOBS multi partition booting from gsh
Tested-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org> Acked-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@wwwdotorg.org>
I wonder if, sometime down the road, it's worth querying the firmware version via the firmware driver and dynamically doing the right thing. Still, the combination of a bleeding edge kernel and an ancient firmware seems a bit unlikely, so perhaps not worth the bother.
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