On Feb 11, 2019, Tom Li <to...@tomli.me> wrote: > We've just identified and confirmed the source of the shutdown problem a > few days ago on this mailing list.
> You can pick up the patch from: > https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/20190207205812.ga11...@darkstar.musicnaut.iki.fi/ > A patch has been authored and submitted by Aaro Koskinen, but currently it > seems stuck in the mailing list because the maintainer worries about > regression > and asks for testing on more MIPS systems, although we believe it's a trivial > patch. Thanks. I've just brought it into my local copies of loongson-community branches for 4.4, 4.9, 4.14, 4.19, and 4.20, and master, after verifying that it enables at least 4.19, 4.20 and master to reboot without a power cycle, and I'll include it in upcoming freeloong builds, except for 3.16 and 3.18, where it doesn't apply. > In addition, I've discovered and fixed another bug preventing the machine from > shutting down, this patch has already merged into the Linus tree. > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=8a96669d77897ff3613157bf43f875739205d66d Hmm, I don't think I've ever hit this one. Do you happen to know how far back it might be needed? > I'll continue working on upstreaming these out-of-tree drivers as my personal > project. I hope you'll be able to use a fully-functional machine with the > mainline > kernel soon, my current target is Linux 5.3. Thanks! -- Alexandre Oliva, freedom fighter https://FSFLA.org/blogs/lxo Be the change, be Free! FSF Latin America board member GNU Toolchain Engineer Free Software Evangelist Hay que enGNUrecerse, pero sin perder la terGNUra jamás-GNUChe
