Introduce halt()

It's a portable and generic way to halt the system.
Useful when waiting for the platform to reset.

Change-Id: Ie07f3333d294a4d3e982cbc2ab9014c94b39fce0
Signed-off-by: Patrick Georgi <pgeorgi@google.com>
Reviewed-on: http://review.coreboot.org/7605
Tested-by: build bot (Jenkins)
Reviewed-by: Edward O'Callaghan <eocallaghan@alterapraxis.com>

1 files changed, 33 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/src/include/halt.h b/src/include/halt.h
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+/*
+ * This file is part of the coreboot project.
+ *
+ * Copyright 2014 The ChromiumOS Authors
+ *
+ * This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or
+ * modify it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as
+ * published by the Free Software Foundation; version 2 of
+ * the License.
+ *
+ * This program is distributed in the hope that it will be useful,
+ * but WITHOUT ANY WARRANTY; without even the implied warranty of
+ * MERCHANTABILITY or FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE.  See the
+ * GNU General Public License for more details.
+ *
+ * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
+ * along with this program; if not, write to the Free Software
+ * Foundation, Inc., 51 Franklin St, Fifth Floor, Boston,
+ * MA 02110-1301 USA
+ */
+
+#ifndef __HALT_H__
+#define __HALT_H__
+
+#ifdef __ROMCC__
+#include <lib/halt.c>
+#else
+/**
+ * halt the system reliably
+ */
+void __attribute__((noreturn)) halt(void);
+#endif /* __ROMCC__ */
+#endif /* __HALT_H__ */