17 Mar
2015
17 Mar
'15
2:58 p.m.
On Tue, Mar 17, 2015 at 02:27:25PM +0000, Jorge Ramirez-Ortiz wrote:
On 03/17/2015 09:34 AM, Mark Rutland wrote:
That patch looks like we're poking the device prior to resetting it, which seems completely backwards.
yes, some background info can be found here https://github.com/96boards/bugs/issues/19
it seems that UEFI accesses during boot might have left the device in an unsuitable state for the kernel. this commit aims at correcting that.
Or to put it another way it's trying to do a more thorough and careful job of resetting the hardware than we're doing at the minute.