From: geoff@infradead.org (Geoff Levand)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH 6/7] arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support
Date: Tue, 07 Oct 2014 13:12:57 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1412712777.32313.130.camel@smoke> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141007184520.GI27464@redhat.com>
Hi Vivek,
On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 14:45 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 11:42:00AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> > Adding purgatory code to arm64 is low priority, and I currently
> > have no plan to do that. Users are asking for kdump, and proper
> > UEFI support, so that is what I will work towards.
>
> I think having purgatory enabled is very important here as in kernel
> you are hardcoding that one of the segments is DTB and doing all the
> magic tricks w.r.t putting a magic number.
I don't argue that having purgatory code could be useful, but as of
now, enabling the other features is what I'll work towards.
Regarding the device tree magic number, I'm wondering if you missed
that the device tree has a header, and that header has a magic
number. See here:
http://git.kernel.org/cgit/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/tree/scripts/dtc/libfdt/fdt.h#n6
-Geoff
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2014-10-07 20:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 65+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2014-09-25 0:23 [PATCH 0/7] arm64 kexec kernel patches V3 Geoff Levand
2014-09-25 0:23 ` [PATCH 2/7] arm64: Convert hcalls to use ISS field Geoff Levand
2014-10-03 10:51 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-03 21:56 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-06 10:13 ` Mark Rutland
2014-09-25 0:23 ` [PATCH 1/7] arm64/kvm: Fix assembler compatibility of macros Geoff Levand
2014-10-03 10:26 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-03 22:27 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-06 10:10 ` Mark Rutland
2014-09-25 0:23 ` [PATCH 3/7] arm64: Add new hcall HVC_CALL_FUNC Geoff Levand
2014-09-25 0:23 ` [PATCH 4/7] arm64: Add EL2 switch to soft_restart Geoff Levand
2014-09-25 0:23 ` [PATCH 6/7] arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support Geoff Levand
2014-09-25 18:28 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-09-25 19:02 ` Geoff Levand
2014-09-25 19:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-09-30 18:18 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-09-30 19:54 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-01 14:56 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-03 18:35 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-07 13:44 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-07 18:42 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-07 18:45 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-07 20:12 ` Geoff Levand [this message]
2014-10-07 20:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-09 22:26 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-23 23:08 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-08 9:28 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-07 18:48 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-01 16:16 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-01 17:36 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-01 17:56 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-01 17:47 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-01 18:03 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-01 18:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-01 18:19 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-01 18:31 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-01 19:22 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-02 10:26 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-02 13:54 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-02 16:53 ` Mark Rutland
2014-09-30 23:59 ` [PATCH V2 " Geoff Levand
2014-09-25 0:23 ` [PATCH 7/7] arm64/kexec: Enable kexec in the arm64 defconfig Geoff Levand
2014-09-25 0:23 ` [PATCH 5/7] arm64: Move proc-macros.S to include/asm Geoff Levand
2014-09-30 20:29 ` [PATCH 0/7] arm64 kexec kernel patches V3 Vivek Goyal
2014-09-30 21:27 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-02 19:08 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-02 22:59 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-07 13:43 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-07 14:06 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-01 15:19 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-03 21:16 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-07 13:40 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-07 18:29 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-08 9:42 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-09 3:21 ` Dave Young
2014-10-09 10:09 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-09 10:19 ` Ard Biesheuvel
2014-10-10 5:30 ` Dave Young
2014-10-07 15:22 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-07 18:28 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-07 18:09 ` Vivek Goyal
2014-10-07 20:07 ` Geoff Levand
2014-10-08 9:52 ` Leif Lindholm
2014-10-08 10:07 ` Mark Rutland
2014-10-09 9:22 ` Will Deacon
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