1 files changed, 7 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/init/init.c b/init/init.c
index e13d4b1..1e31cf9 100755
--- a/init/init.c
+++ b/init/init.c
@@ -651,6 +651,10 @@ static int check_startup_action(int nargs, char **args)
         ERROR("init startup failure\n");
         exit(1);
     }
+
+        /* signal that we hit this point */
+    unlink("/dev/.booting");
+
     return 0;
 }
 
@@ -708,6 +712,9 @@ int main(int argc, char **argv)
     mount("proc", "/proc", "proc", 0, NULL);
     mount("sysfs", "/sys", "sysfs", 0, NULL);
 
+        /* indicate that booting is in progress to background fw loaders, etc */
+    close(open("/dev/.booting", O_WRONLY | O_CREAT, 0000));
+
         /* We must have some place other than / to create the
          * device nodes for kmsg and null, otherwise we won't
          * be able to remount / read-only later on.