Subject: Re: [PATCH] add restart function for mpc52xx

From: Segher Boessenkool <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 12 Jan 2007 13:19:03 +0100

> On system with real open firmware it's surely the way to go to use it,
> but on systems without OF it's just painful. Not being able to 
> implement
> a restart function without changing the device tree shows that.

That's bullshit.  You use the watchdog timer to implement
system restart functionality; and you didn't describe the
watchdog hardware in the device tree.  You should have had
it in there already.

Segher