From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Andrew Sharp <andy.sharp@onstor.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: kexec - not happening on mipsel?
Date: Thu, 9 Aug 2007 13:35:30 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070809123530.GA14183@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070808184120.40b6b5d5@ripper.onstor.net>
On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:41:20PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote:
> > We could sure make use of kexec for quick reboots (it bloody takes
> > forever for the PROM to set up ECC memory). The config option is in
> > Kconfig; I haven't checked the kernel source. But the userspace
> > package kexec-tools barfs on the mipsel arch in configure.
>
> Answering my own question on this part at least, it didn't take long to
> find this patch, so we'll see how that goes.
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-June/000214.html
>
> > Is anybody using this on MIPS? Do the kernel portions work for
> > anyone?
I recently noticed the kernel part was fairly broken, did (if ever) only
work for 32-bit machines. I fixed what I could but I don't have the
necessary test setup. See
http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=commit;h=bb73f9d8ee3133800da546832ca7f09d3f27695e
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-08-09 12:35 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-08-09 0:08 kexec - not happening on mipsel? Andrew Sharp
2007-08-09 1:41 ` Andrew Sharp
2007-08-09 12:35 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2007-08-10 16:57 ` Nicolas Schichan
2007-08-14 9:47 ` Ralf Baechle
2007-08-20 13:57 ` Nicolas Schichan
2007-08-20 16:28 ` Ralf Baechle
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