From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Jesse Barnes Date: Mon, 26 Jul 2004 22:36:05 +0000 Subject: Re: [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64 Message-Id: <200407261536.05133.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> List-Id: References: <200407261524.40804.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> In-Reply-To: <200407261524.40804.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Monday, July 26, 2004 3:24 pm, Jesse Barnes wrote: > o userspace tools need ia64 support > o need to deal with in-flight DMA (see FIXME in machine_kexec) After looking at it a little more, I suppose device_shutdown() should theoretically deal with this. Also, it would be nice if there were a Documentation/kexec.txt or something in the full patch that describes all the pieces and what the arch dependent functions are responsible for. Randy, do you have anything like that written up somewhere that you could include in the next spin of the patch? Thanks, Jesse