Re: RFC: Kexec Cmdline Support

[Koen Kooi <k.kooi@student.utwente.nl>]

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Hans Henry von Tresckow schreef:
> On 10/19/07, Uli Luckas <luckas@musoft.de> wrote:
>> Am Tuesday, 9. October 2007 schrieb Hans Henry von Tresckow:
>>> Ok, I have tested your patch and it works very well. I think the only
>> real
>>> stumbling block left is figuring out a way to get the base address for
>> the
>>> ATAG list without hard-coding it. I think if we can somehow access the
>>> machine_desc structure in the kernel from user space, this would be
>> easy.
>>> Unfortunately I am not very good at kernel hacking yet, so if you or
>>> someone else on the list has an idea, please let me know.
>> Hi Henry,
>> sorry for letting you wait so long. I am out of office until 10/29. After
>> that
>> I can provide a kernel patch to export the ATAG list's base address and
>> also
>> the old ATAG list. For now the patch will be against 2.6.21 though, as I
>> don't have a running, more recent kernel available.
>>
>> Regards
>> Uli
>>
>> --
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>>
> 
> Thanks. That sounds excellent :) 2.6.21 should be OK, since it looks like
> that will be the version for Angstrom 2007 iirc.

Only for a few devices, e.g. the zaurus device are probably going to use
.23, the powerpc devices .22, etc

regards,

Koen
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