[systemd-devel] [PATCH] [RFC] Make reboot to support additional command

[Zbigniew Jędrzejewski-Szmek]

On Sat, Aug 24, 2013 at 01:12:42PM +0900, WaLyong Cho 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 <walyong.cho at samsung.com>
> >>
> >> 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.
Google tells me that the argument is architecture and firmware specific.
Do you have some examples of strings that are actually used?

Zbyszek