From: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
To: Stanislaw Skowronek <sskowron@ET.PUT.Poznan.PL>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: patch like kexec for MIPS possible?
Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:56:49 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050206155649.GA11452@linux-mips.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.GSO.4.10.10502052025001.1535-100000@helios.et.put.poznan.pl>
On Sat, Feb 05, 2005 at 08:26:04PM +0100, Stanislaw Skowronek wrote:
> > Frankly, I don't see what kexec is good for. Who else besides
> > kernel developers would need to reboot a machine continuously?
>
> Yeah. And, speaking from experience, it is often caused by the hardware
> entering such an invalid state that requires a hard reset anyway.
I guess only the big iron fraction among us will really be missing
something like kexec - firmware reinitialization may take minutes on that
calibre of system so being able to get around that would be a good thing.
Ralf
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-02-06 16:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-02-05 16:50 patch like kexec for MIPS possible? Robert Michel
2005-02-05 17:41 ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-02-05 19:11 ` Robert Michel
2005-02-05 20:33 ` Wolfgang Denk
2005-02-06 1:01 ` Dan Malek
2005-02-06 9:29 ` Wolfgang Denk
2005-02-06 0:28 ` Thiemo Seufer
2005-02-07 16:37 ` Robert Michel
2005-02-05 19:26 ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2005-02-06 15:56 ` Ralf Baechle [this message]
2005-02-06 16:11 ` Stanislaw Skowronek
2005-02-06 16:11 ` Ralf Baechle
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