Re: [PATCH 0/7] Kexec-tools: Improve RISC-V port

[Simon Horman <horms@kernel.org>]

On Sat, May 18, 2024 at 11:39:18AM +0800, Dave Young wrote:
> On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 at 13:24, Song Shuai <songshuaishuai@tinylab.org> wrote:
> >
> >
> >
> > 在 2023/9/20 19:56, Simon Horman 写道:
> > > On Fri, Sep 15, 2023 at 11:50:06AM +0800, Song Shuai wrote:
> > >> Hi,
> > >>
> > >> This series is created to improve RISC-V port of kexec-tools,
> > >> and is based on the horms/kexec-tools:build-test-riscv-v2 branch.
> > >
> > > In my mind the big question is how to move RISC-V support
> > > from that branch, to being merged into main.
> > >
> > > IIRC there were some issues that needed to be addressed.
> > > Perhaps they are all addressed by this series, and with
> > > some appropriate squashing we can move forwards with a series
> > > based on main?
> >
> > Hi, Simon and Nick:
> >
> > I squashed the first four patches as a "RISC-V: Some fixes for riscv
> > port" patch and then took the horms/main as the base to collect the 2
> > patches from horms/build-test-riscv-v2 branch and this series togother.
> > These are the Github link and all commits for RISC-V.
> >
> > https://github.com/sugarfillet/kexec-tools/commits/main_rv
> >
> > 5dc133e RISC-V: Support loading Image binary file
> > b042f6d RISC-V: Separate elf_riscv_find_pbase out
> > 8f344c7 RISC-V: Enable kexec_file_load syscall
> > 7d4b982 RISC-V: Some fixes for riscv port
> > 3205c1c local: RISC-V: distribute purgatory/riscv/Makefile
> > 54f9daf RISC-V: Add support for riscv kexec/kdump on kexec-tools
> >
> > Since I didn't found the issues/fixes as Nick mentioned with these
> > commits, I prefer to merge them into horms/main and let more kexec/kdump
> > users to help improve/fixup RISC-V port.
> 
> Hi,  I noticed another pr for Fedora kexec-tools:
> https://src.fedoraproject.org/rpms/kexec-tools/pull-request/24
> 
> It is bad to take it as Fedora only,   I would suggest posting all the
> refreshed patches together here again for review.
> 
> If no enough reviewers can review them my another suggestion is to
> drop the kexec_load support code for the time being, and only enable
> the kexec_file_load support code in kexec-tools, and I assume below
> kernel commit make the kexec_file_load kernel piece of work done.
> Then it will be easier to review and make something working at least.
> commit 6261586e0c91db14c34f894f4bc48f2300cff1d4
> Author: Liao Chang <liaochang1@huawei.com>
> Date:   Fri Apr 8 18:09:11 2022 +0800
> 
>     RISC-V: Add kexec_file support

Hi,

I would gladly take a patchset for kexec-tools that adds RISC-V support in
a coherent manner.


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