From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Jeremy Kerr <jk@ozlabs.org>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] kexec build system updates, to allow cross-kexec()ing
Date: Wed, 19 Dec 2007 15:04:26 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071219060425.GD12773@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1197967675.854275.930419561848.0.gpush@pokey>
On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:47:55PM +0900, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> This series of patches is aimed at simplifying the kexec build system,
> mainly in order to make cross-compilation much easier.
>
> As well as cross-compiling, this makes it possible to separate the
> 'host' architecture (ie, the arch of the kexec binary built), and the
> 'target' architecture (ie, the arch of the kernel that we're kexecing).
> We can specify these with the standard --host and --target arguments
> to configure.
>
> This allows us to kexec a powerpc64 kernel from a powerpc userspace.
> x86{,_64} users might find this handy too, but I don't have hardware
> to test.
>
> Any comments are most welcome - if you're able to test on your
> arch, that would be great too.
Thanks Jeremy,
I've run these patches through the build for all supported architectures
and they seem clean to me. So I have gone ahead and applied them. If
anyone notices any breakage please let Jeremy and/or myself know.
--
Horms
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Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-12-18 8:47 [PATCH 0/8] kexec build system updates, to allow cross-kexec()ing Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-18 8:47 ` [PATCH 1/8] Enable building a 32 bit binary for ppc64 platforms Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-19 6:02 ` Geoff Levand
2007-12-18 8:47 ` [PATCH 7/8] removed partially duplicated system headers Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-18 8:47 ` [PATCH 4/8] Use config.h for defines Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-18 8:47 ` [PATCH 8/8] Don't assume we can re-make Makefile Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-18 8:47 ` [PATCH 5/8] Add gamecube to config.h defines Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-18 8:47 ` [PATCH 6/8] Build system simplification/standardisation Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-18 8:47 ` [PATCH 2/8] Use --target for target architecture specification Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-18 8:47 ` [PATCH 3/8] Consolidate BOOTLOADER defines Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-18 23:25 ` [PATCH 0/8] kexec build system updates, to allow cross-kexec()ing Vivek Goyal
2007-12-19 5:37 ` Jeremy Kerr
2007-12-19 14:38 ` Lombard, David N
2007-12-19 14:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-12-19 6:04 ` Simon Horman [this message]
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