[Skiboot] [PATCH RFC] platform: add OPAL_REBOOT_FULL_IPL reboot type

Stewart Smith stewart at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Fri Dec 23 15:21:58 AEDT 2016


Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com> writes:
> There may be circumstances in which a user wants to force a full IPL reboot
> rather than using fast reboot. Add a new reboot type, OPAL_REBOOT_FULL_IPL,
> that disables fast reboot. On platforms which don't support fast reboot,
> this will be equivalent to a normal reboot.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan at au1.ibm.com>
>
> ---
>
> Does this seem like a sensible idea? Corresponding kernel RFC will be sent 
> shortly.

Following up from my "i think it's a good idea", merged to master as of 85e67a6.

-- 
Stewart Smith
OPAL Architect, IBM.



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