From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Matthew McClintock <msm@freescale.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] Add support for ramdisk on ppc32 for uImage-ppc and Elf-ppc
Date: Thu, 29 Jul 2010 17:33:25 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100729083324.GC10021@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279656900-27458-5-git-send-email-msm@freescale.com>
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:14:58PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote:
> This fixes --reuseinitrd and --ramdisk option for ppc32 on
> uImage-ppc and Elf. It works for normal kexec as well as for
> kdump.
>
> When using --reuseinitrd you need to specifify retain_initrd
> on the command line. Also, if you are doing kdump you need to make
> sure your initrd lives in the crashdump region otherwise the
> kdump kernel will not be able to access it. The --ramdisk option
> should always work.
Thanks, I have applied this change.
I had to do a minor merge on the Makefile,
could you verify that the result is correct?
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Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-07-20 20:14 [PATCH v2 1/7] Restore kexec uImage-ppc to working state Matthew McClintock
2010-07-20 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 2/7] Fix case where phys_addr_t != unsigned long when reading proc entries Matthew McClintock
2010-07-20 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 3/7] Update uImage to support crash kernel and misc fixes Matthew McClintock
2010-07-20 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 4/7] Update Elf-ppc " Matthew McClintock
2010-07-20 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] Add support for ramdisk on ppc32 for uImage-ppc and Elf-ppc Matthew McClintock
2010-07-20 20:14 ` [PATCH v2 6/7] Add support for reworking flat device tree support Matthew McClintock
2010-07-20 20:15 ` [PATCH v2 7/7] Add documentation/howto for mpc85xx systems Matthew McClintock
2010-07-29 8:33 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2010-07-29 16:03 ` [PATCH v2 5/7] Add support for ramdisk on ppc32 for uImage-ppc and Elf-ppc Matthew McClintock
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