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

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

In article <20150711015507.GC15806@odin>, Mayuresh  <mayuresh%acm.org@localhost> wrote:
>On Fri, Jul 10, 2015 at 08:42:45PM -0500, Eric Schnoebelen wrote:
>> The raspberry pi does not have a mechansism for the software to
>> power off the hardware.  Thus, all of "poweroff", "halt",
>> "shutdown -h" and "shutdown -p" will end up at the "press any
>> key to reboot" message.
>> 
>> Yes, it sucks.  But it is a side effect of the "power supply" in
>> use.
>
>The problem is more due to voluntary reboot after reaching the reboot
>prompt.  Because of this behavior, if I am running pi headless, I can
>never be sure when to pull the plug. Due to this my FS crashed many times
>till now requiring reinstalling image. (Having a separate thread on why
>fsck didn't help...)
>
>On Raspbian I never faced this problem. Probably Raspbian also drops to
>reboot prompt (do not recollect now), but it does not reboot, making it
>safe to wait for a minute or two and pull the plug.

Update to revision 1.8 in src/sys/arch/arm/arm32/arm32_reboot.c

christos