Re: [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64

Jesse Barnes
2004-07-27T14:49:06Z

On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 1:24 am, Christian Hildner wrote:
> Jesse Barnes schrieb:
> >I'm also worried about a few things in this patch. Is relocate_kernel.S
> >really necessary in 2.6? Can we copy the kernel to a contiguous 64MB
> > aligned area, drop into phys mode and just jump to it?
>
> You should be safe with that but you should consider flushing TLB
> entries of the old kernel before the newly started kernel inserts its
> own translations.

Right, probably a good idea.

Jesse