It appears that the BayTrail-T class of hardware requires EFI in order
to powerdown and reboot and no other reliable method exists.
This quirk is generally applicable to all hardware that has the ACPI
Hardware Reduced bit set, since usually ACPI would be the preferred
method.
Cc: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
Cc: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rafael.j.wysocki@intel.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Not only can EfiResetSystem() be used to reboot, it can also be used to
power down machines.
By and large, this functionality doesn't work very well across the range
of EFI machines in the wild, so it should definitely only be used as a
last resort. In an ideal world, this wouldn't be needed at all.
Unfortunately, we're starting to see machines where EFI is the *only*
reliable way to power down, and nothing else, not PCI, not ACPI, works.
efi_poweroff_required() should be implemented on a per-architecture
basis, since exactly when we should be using EFI runtime services is a
platform-specific decision. There's no analogue for reboot because each
architecture handles reboot very differently - the x86 code in
particular is pretty complex.
Patches to enable this for specific classes of hardware will be
submitted separately.
Tested-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Implement efi_reboot(), which is really just a wrapper around the
EfiResetSystem() EFI runtime service, but it does at least allow us to
funnel all callers through a single location.
It also simplifies the callsites since users no longer need to check to
see whether EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES are enabled.
Cc: Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>
Tested-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Signed-off-by: Matt Fleming <matt.fleming@intel.com>
Matt Fleming