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From: Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@freebox.fr>
To: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org
Subject: Re: kexec on SMP mips64?
Date: Fri, 1 Feb 2008 13:21:43 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200802011321.43399.nschichan@freebox.fr> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <47A21286.3020009@nortel.com>

On Thursday 31 January 2008 19:25:10 you wrote:

Hi,

> We're starting work on an embedded highly-available product using dual
> Octeon cpus, and I'm looking into the possibility of using kexec/kdump
> as a "flight recorder" to dump fault information to a persistant storage
> location.
>
> I saw the patch adding initial support for kexec, but I was curious
> about the current status.  Is anyone using kexec for mips64 SMP systems?
>   Is it known to be broken?  I'm just trying to get a feel for how much
> work might be involved.

The code used to work on the 32bit mips board I have access to, but as far as 
I know it has not been tested on 64bit. I have not tested it on SMP, but 
chances are that kexec on mips is broken here too.

Regards,

-- 
Nicolas Schichan

      parent reply	other threads:[~2008-02-01 12:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-01-31 18:25 kexec on SMP mips64? Chris Friesen
2008-02-01  9:32 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-02-01 12:21 ` Nicolas Schichan [this message]

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