efi_nap.c

Go to the documentation of this file.

/*
 * Copyright (C) 2008 Michael Brown <mbrown@fensystems.co.uk>.
 *
 * 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; either version 2 of the
 * License, or any later version.
 *
 * 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 Street, Fifth Floor, Boston, MA
 * 02110-1301, USA.
 *
 * You can also choose to distribute this program under the terms of
 * the Unmodified Binary Distribution Licence (as given in the file
 * COPYING.UBDL), provided that you have satisfied its requirements.
 */
 
FILE_LICENCE ( GPL2_OR_LATER_OR_UBDL );
FILE_SECBOOT ( PERMITTED );
 
#include <ipxe/nap.h>
#include <ipxe/efi/efi.h>
 
/** @file
 *
 * iPXE CPU sleeping API for EFI
 *
 */
 
/**
 * Sleep until next interrupt
 *
 */
static void efi_cpu_nap ( void ) {
        /*
         * I can't find any EFI API that allows us to put the CPU to
         * sleep.  The CpuSleep() function is defined in CpuLib.h, but
         * isn't part of any exposed protocol so we have no way to
         * call it.
         *
         * The EFI shell doesn't seem to bother sleeping the CPU; it
         * just sits there idly burning power.
         *
         * If a shutdown is in progess, there may be nothing to
         * generate an interrupt since the timer is disabled in the
         * first step of ExitBootServices().
         */
        if ( ! efi_shutdown_in_progress )
                cpu_halt();
}
 
PROVIDE_NAP ( efi, cpu_nap, efi_cpu_nap );