On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 6:12 AM, WaLyong Cho <[email protected]> wrote: > On 08/24/2013 01:47 AM, Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 13, 2013 at 03:01:25AM +0900, WaLyong Cho wrote: >>> From: WaLyong Cho <[email protected]> >>> >>> reboot syscall can be performed with additional argument. In some of >>> system, this functionality can be useful to ask next boot mode to >>> bootloader. >> What are the possible values of this additional argument? >> What systems support it? > > Any string can be. i.e. download and fota(firmware update by air) can > be. In mobile system(actually tizen), if user try to update the firmware > by air, then the system should be booted special mode at the next boot. > To ask this information to bootloader, reboot can use boot parameter.
EFI supports something similar: http://wiki.phoenix.com/wiki/index.php/EFI_RUNTIME_SERVICES#ResetSystem.28.29 We need to be careful how to add or support that. If we do that, it needs to be supported in PID1 and over the D-Bus interface too, I guess. Kay _______________________________________________ systemd-devel mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/systemd-devel
