From: thierry.reding@avionic-design.de (Thierry Reding)
To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: [PATCH] ARM: tegra: add kexec support to defconfig
Date: Thu, 3 Jan 2013 22:29:04 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130103212903.GA27749@avionic-0098.adnet.avionic-design.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <50E5F5A3.1060507@wwwdotorg.org>
On Thu, Jan 03, 2013 at 02:18:27PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> On 01/03/2013 02:05 PM, Thierry Reding wrote:
> > On Wed, Jan 02, 2013 at 02:12:21PM -0700, Stephen Warren wrote:
> >> From: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com>
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Stephen Warren <swarren@nvidia.com> ---
> >> arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig | 1 + 1 file changed, 1
> >> insertion(+)
> >>
> >> diff --git a/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig
> >> b/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig index 742dc41..e621603 100644
> >> --- a/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig +++
> >> b/arch/arm/configs/tegra_defconfig @@ -34,6 +34,7 @@
> >> CONFIG_AEABI=y CONFIG_HIGHMEM=y CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_TEXT=0x0
> >> CONFIG_ZBOOT_ROM_BSS=0x0 +CONFIG_KEXEC=y CONFIG_CPU_FREQ=y
> >> CONFIG_CPU_FREQ_DEFAULT_GOV_ONDEMAND=y CONFIG_CPU_IDLE=y
> >
> > Interesting. What do you plan to use this for? kdump?
>
> I plan to burn a kernel (and a small stub, and a DTB) into flash
> instead of U-Boot, and hence not have to rely on any bootloader.
Why does that require kexec support?
> Even ignoring that, a quick scp of a new kernel to a target followed
> by a kexec is faster than rebooting all the way through U-Boot's
> slower Ethernet support to boot a new kernel.
That sounds like an interesting approach. I wonder if this actually
works with the current state of drivers in mainline. Sounds like this
could speed up development quite a bit by avoiding full reboots.
Thierry
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Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-01-02 21:12 [PATCH] ARM: tegra: add kexec support to defconfig Stephen Warren
2013-01-03 16:50 ` Stephen Warren
2013-01-03 21:05 ` Thierry Reding
2013-01-03 21:18 ` Stephen Warren
2013-01-03 21:29 ` Thierry Reding [this message]
2013-01-03 21:45 ` Stephen Warren
2013-01-04 20:08 ` Thierry Reding
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