From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mail-bw0-f218.google.com (mail-bw0-f218.google.com [209.85.218.218]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7A79AB7C09 for ; Thu, 1 Apr 2010 00:23:07 +1100 (EST) Received: by bwz10 with SMTP id 10so107313bwz.2 for ; Wed, 31 Mar 2010 06:23:03 -0700 (PDT) Date: Wed, 31 Mar 2010 17:23:00 +0400 From: Anton Vorontsov To: Christian Kujau Subject: Re: kexec for powerpc32 Message-ID: <20100331132300.GA15951@oksana.dev.rtsoft.ru> References: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 In-Reply-To: Cc: Maxim Uvarov , horms@verge.net.au, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , 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