[PATCH] ppc64: do not return from maple halt, power off, restart

Benjamin Herrenschmidt benh at kernel.crashing.org
Sun Jun 5 08:31:12 EST 2005


On Sat, 2005-06-04 at 12:46 -0500, Hollis Blanchard wrote:
> On Jun 3, 2005, at 6:34 PM, Frank Rowand wrote:
> >
> > The Maple board currently returns from a request to halt, power off, or
> > restart.  This patch causes all processors to instead spin in these 
> > cases
> > so that the system appears to have halted.
> 
> Can't you write to magic locations in SuperIO NVRAM to have PIBS 
> running on the 405 perform some of these actions for you?

It's possible, though the Maple can't do the full power off properly due
to some issue between the cpc925 and the amd8111

Ben.





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