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From: Anton Vorontsov <cbouatmailru@gmail.com>
To: Christian Kujau <lists@nerdbynature.de>
Cc: Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@ru.mvista.com>,
	horms@verge.net.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: kexec for powerpc32
Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:23:00 +0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100331132300.GA15951@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.01.1003310430570.5493@bogon.housecafe.de>

Hi,

On Wed, Mar 31, 2010 at 05:18:18AM -0700, Christian Kujau wrote:
> [please CC me as I am not subscribed]
> 
> Hi,
> 
> when building a kernel for powerpc32 (PowerBook6,8 / 7447A) I can select
> CONFIG_KEXEC. However, after booting I can't convince kexec (from 
> kexec-tools, latest git checkout) to load the kernel:
> 
> # /opt/kexec-tools/sbin/kexec -l /boot/2.6/zImage --append="root=/dev/hda6" 
> get_memory_ranges(): Unsupported platform
> Could not get memory layout

Kernel has all needed for kexec, but kexec-tools are broken for
powerpc32.

http://www.mail-archive.com/linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org/msg22498.html

I've just asked around, and it seems that Maxim (Cc'ed) will start
working on reviving ppc32 support real soon.

Thanks,

-- 
Anton Vorontsov
email: cbouatmailru@gmail.com
irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2

  reply	other threads:[~2010-03-31 13:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-03-31 12:18 kexec for powerpc32 Christian Kujau
2010-03-31 13:23 ` Anton Vorontsov [this message]
2010-03-31 18:33   ` Christian Kujau
2010-04-01  8:18     ` Maxim Uvarov
2010-04-01 12:56     ` poweroff/suspend problems on PowerMac G5 Bolko Maass
2010-04-01 15:14       ` Anton Vorontsov
2010-04-01 22:49         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-04-11  9:51           ` Romain Goyet

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