From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: "Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com>
Cc: suparna@in.ibm.com, fastboot@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [KEXEC][PATCH] Modified (smaller) x86 kexec hwfixes patch
Date: 14 Feb 2003 01:32:08 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m165rn8dpz.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <51710000.1045205264@[10.10.2.4]>
"Martin J. Bligh" <mbligh@aracnet.com> writes:
> Running on my 4-way P3 test box (just SMP, not NUMA) kexec_test
> prints this:
>
> Synchronizing SCSI caches:
> Shutting down devices
> Starting new kernel
> kexec_test 1.8 starting...
> eax: 0E1FB007 ebx: 0000011C ecx: 00000000 edx: 00000000
> esi: 00000000 edi: 00000000 esp: 00000000 ebp: 00000000
> idt: 00000000 C0000000
> gdt: 0000006F 000000A0
> Switching descriptors.
> Descriptors changed.
> Legacy pic setup.
> In real mode.
>
> Without that I just get:
>
> Synchronizing SCSI caches:
> Shutting down devices
> Starting new kernel
>
> Can someone interpret?
Besides the fact that you cannot make BIOS calls, and kexec is working
there is not much to say. You cannot kexec another kernel?
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-02-14 8:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-02-13 10:40 [KEXEC][PATCH] Modified (smaller) x86 kexec hwfixes patch Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-02-13 15:09 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-14 3:29 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2003-02-14 4:08 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-14 8:30 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-14 6:47 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-14 8:32 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2003-02-14 15:32 ` Martin J. Bligh
2003-02-14 16:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2003-02-14 8:39 ` Eric W. Biederman
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