Re: efi/reboot: Fall back to original power-off method if EFI_RESET_SHUTDOWN returns

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On Wed, 21 Jun, at 03:15:09PM, Hans de Goede wrote:
> HI,
> 
> On 23-04-17 14:36, Hans de Goede wrote:
> >Commit 44be28e9dd98 ("x86/reboot: Add EFI reboot quirk for ACPI Hardware
> >Reduced flag") sets pm_power_off to efi_power_off() when the
> >acpi_gbl_reduced_hardware flag is set.
> >
> >According to its commit message this is necessary because: "BayTrail-T
> >class of hardware requires EFI in order to powerdown and reboot and no
> >other reliable method exists"
> >
> >But I have a Bay Trail CR tablet where the EFI_RESET_SHUTDOWN call does
> >not work, it simply returns without doing anything (AFAICT).
> >
> >So it seems that some Bay Trail devices must use EFI for power-off, while
> >for others only ACPI works.
> >
> >Note that efi_power_off() only gets used if the platform code defines
> >efi_poweroff_required() and that returns true, this currently only ever
> >happens on x86.
> >
> >Since on the devices which need ACPI for power-off the EFI_RESET_SHUTDOWN
> >call simply returns, this patch makes the efi-reboot code remember the
> >old pm_power_off handler and if EFI_RESET_SHUTDOWN returns it falls back
> >to calling that.
> >
> >This seems preferable to dmi-quirking our way out of this, since there
> >are likely quite a few devices suffering from this.
> >
> >Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>
> >Signed-off-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@xxxxxxxxxx>
> 
> What is the status of this patch ? It has had 2 somewhat favorable
> reviews and then things went silent ?

Sorry about the delay. I've picked this up for the efi-next branch
since we're at -rc6 and it doesn't look like an -rc6-urgent bug.

Thanks!
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