From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Christian Hildner Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2004 08:24:41 +0000 Subject: Re: [BROKEN PATCH] kexec for ia64 Message-Id: <41061149.1030709@hob.de> 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 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. Christian