[Automated-testing] Board management API discussion at ATS - my ideas

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

On Mon, Oct 21, 2019 at 11:03 AM Milosz Wasilewski
<milosz.wasilewski at linaro.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Oct 2019 at 10:18, Jan Lübbe <jlu at pengutronix.de> wrote:
> > On Sat, 2019-10-12 at 17:14 +0000, Tim.Bird at sony.com wrote:
> > > booting the board:

This says "booting".

> > > verb: reboot

This says "reboot".

> > > (are power-on and power-off needed at this layer?)
> >
> > OK. The BM layer you handle power off on release.
>
> What reboot are we talking about? There can be a software reboot or
> 'hard reboot' meaning forcibly power cycling the board. The latter is
> power-off followed by power-on so these 2 also belong in this layer.

Exactly.

If you just want to "boot the board", it could be providing power (if
not enabled
already), followed by turning on the board, or resetting the board, if it's
already running?

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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