Re: NetBSD 7.0_RC1 on Raspberry Pi : reboots on poweroff

[christos%astron.com@localhost (Christos Zoulas)]

In article <20150711052153.GA3022@odin>, Mayuresh  <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Sat, Jul 11, 2015 at 04:06:22AM +0000, Michael van Elst wrote:
>> The RPI cannot "power itself off" but it should really wait for
>> a keypress. This used to work with a serial console, but maybe
>> not with a USB keyboard.
>
>If I remove the USB keyboard and issue poweroff over ssh, it does not even
>wait at reboot message. It just reboots without waiting. (And if I have
>USB keyboard, it waits at reboot message for a few seconds and then
>reboots.)
>
>I am sure the issue is not about RPI's lack of ability to power itself
>down.

1. there is no code for the arm to poweroff.
2. the cpu_reboot code in src/sys/arch/arm/arm32/arm32_reboot.c in 1.6
   which is the revision in netbsd-7 reboots on halt. This has been
   fixed in later revisions to loop and wait.

christos