From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from [130.89.2.9] (helo=smtp.utwente.nl) by linuxtogo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.67) (envelope-from ) id 1Ij98r-0005tN-CE for openembedded-devel@openembedded.org; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:53:07 +0200 Received: from Powerbook-2.local (dominion.kabel.utwente.nl [130.89.193.158]) by smtp.utwente.nl (8.12.10/SuSE Linux 0.7) with ESMTP id l9K7k4Ux003691; Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:46:05 +0200 Message-ID: <4719B244.6000701@student.utwente.nl> Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 09:46:12 +0200 From: Koen Kooi User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.6 (Macintosh/20070728) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions References: <200709261801.13349.u.luckas@road.de> <200710192235.46408.luckas@musoft.de> In-Reply-To: X-Enigmail-Version: 0.95.3 X-UTwente-MailScanner-Information: Scanned by MailScanner. Contact helpdesk@ITBE.utwente.nl for more information. X-UTwente-MailScanner: Found to be clean X-UTwente-MailScanner-From: k.kooi@student.utwente.nl X-Spam-Status: No X-MIME-Autoconverted: from 8bit to quoted-printable by smtp.utwente.nl id l9K7k4Ux003691 Cc: Uli Luckas Subject: Re: RFC: Kexec Cmdline Support X-BeenThere: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.9 Precedence: list Reply-To: openembedded-devel@lists.openembedded.org List-Id: Using the OpenEmbedded metadata to build Distributions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 20 Oct 2007 07:53:08 -0000 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 Hans Henry von Tresckow schreef: > On 10/19/07, Uli Luckas 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 fo= r >> the >>> ATAG list without hard-coding it. I think if we can somehow access th= e >>> 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. Af= ter >> that >> I can provide a kernel patch to export the ATAG list's base address an= d >> 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 >> >> -- >> Fr=C3=BCher oder sp=C3=A4ter emulieren wir euch >> - Linux.de >> >=20 > Thanks. That sounds excellent :) 2.6.21 should be OK, since it looks li= ke > 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 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.5 (Darwin) iD8DBQFHGbJEMkyGM64RGpERAqwwAJ422t+AkOZC6HgFTbaF5QgVWC2ysACgsnlX YADqHrw6e3HtqYGI+bS1u34=3D =3DOjIL -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----