Re: [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64

Randy.Dunlap
2004-07-30T22:55:04Z

On Mon, 26 Jul 2004 15:36:05 -0700 Jesse Barnes wrote:

| 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?

Nope, sorry, I don't have anything like that.

Eric, do you have anything like Jesse asked about (arch-dependent
requirements)?

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~Randy