From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: with ECARTIS (v1.0.0; list linux-mips); Sun, 06 Feb 2005 16:01:55 +0000 (GMT) Received: from alg138.algor.co.uk ([IPv6:::ffff:62.254.210.138]:16068 "EHLO mail.linux-mips.net") by linux-mips.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 16:01:38 +0000 Received: from dea.linux-mips.net (localhost.localdomain [127.0.0.1]) by mail.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1) with ESMTP id j16Fun1c016069; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:56:50 GMT Received: (from ralf@localhost) by dea.linux-mips.net (8.13.1/8.13.1/Submit) id j16FunD8016068; Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:56:49 GMT Date: Sun, 6 Feb 2005 15:56:49 +0000 From: Ralf Baechle To: Stanislaw Skowronek Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Subject: Re: patch like kexec for MIPS possible? Message-ID: <20050206155649.GA11452@linux-mips.org> References: <20050205174150.GU28252@rembrandt.csv.ica.uni-stuttgart.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i 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: 7169 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: ralf@linux-mips.org Precedence: bulk X-list: linux-mips 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