From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sat, 05 Feb 2005 16:50:37 +0000 (GMT) Received: from ms-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE ([IPv6:::ffff:134.130.3.130]:41471 "EHLO ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sat, 5 Feb 2005 16:50:21 +0000 Received: from r220-1 (r220-1.rz.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.3.31]) by ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de (iPlanet Messaging Server 5.2 HotFix 1.12 (built Feb 13 2003)) with ESMTP id <0IBG001JU6RW9H@ms-dienst.rz.rwth-aachen.de> for linux-mips@linux-mips.org; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:50:21 +0100 (MET) Received: from relay.rwth-aachen.de ([134.130.3.1]) by r220-1 (MailMonitor for SMTP v1.2.2 ) ; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:50:20 +0100 (MET) Received: from robins (robins.karman5.RWTH-Aachen.DE [134.130.104.75]) by relay.rwth-aachen.de (8.13.0/8.13.0/1) with ESMTP id j15GoJ4e019387 for ; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:50:19 +0100 (MET) Received: from rob by robins with local (Exim 3.36 #1 (Debian)) id 1CxT8V-0001P4-00 for ; Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:50:19 +0100 Date: Sat, 05 Feb 2005 17:50:19 +0100 From: Robert Michel Subject: patch like kexec for MIPS possible? To: linux-mips Message-id: <20050205165019.GC3071@mail.robertmichel.de> MIME-version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Content-disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Return-Path: X-Envelope-To: <"|/home/ecartis/ecartis -s linux-mips"> (uid 0) X-Orcpt: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org Original-Recipient: rfc822;linux-mips@linux-mips.org X-archive-position: 7160 X-ecartis-version: Ecartis v1.0.0 Sender: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org Errors-to: linux-mips-bounce@linux-mips.org X-original-sender: news@robertmichel.de Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips Salve! Does the MIPS CPUs makes a patch like kexec possible? Kexec is a kernel patch which allows you to start another kernel. IMHO would such a kernel patch would be handy, especialy for small MIPS Linux boxes. For more info about kexec read e.g. http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kexec.html And please don't get me wrong - as a non-kernel-developer I'm very happy with your work - my question is not a request, I'm just interested if there is a limitation of the MIPS platform to do something like this or not. Greetings, rob PS: And _if_ it would be possible, maybe sombody read this and join thinking that this feature would be realy cool ;)