Hi Wolfram,
On Mon, Apr 4, 2016 at 4:59 PM, Wolfram Sang <wsa@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>> My Salvator-X reboots after timeout from "cat > /dev/watchdog0", but
>> it doesn't reboot through "reboot" or "reboot -f"?
>
> That sadly doesn't work on Gen3. From the RFC v5 cover letter:
> ===
>
> * drop restart_handler since ARM64 uses PSCI firmware resets which do
> not call restart handlers
>
> The last point was quite a bummer to me because plain reboot was the
> reason I wrote this driver ;) Well, so is life...
That's indeed silly. Can't we have it as a low-priority restart handler, to
restart the system if PSCI fails to do so?
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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