Re: [Fastboot] Re: Re: tg3: issue for reboot/kexec

Khalid Aziz
2005-08-18T19:06:05Z

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On Thu, 2005-08-18 at 12:42 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Khalid Aziz <khalid_aziz@hp.com> writes:
> > As soon as I have all the issues sorted out with kexec'ing on INIT on
> > ia64, I will post a fully updated kexec patch for ia64. I now have kexec
> > working solid on INIT with e1000 driver and it can handle multiple back
> > to back INITs and come up in kexec'd kernel every time. I am now trying
> > to sort some issues out with tg3 driver (another driver with no shutdown
> > routine :(
>
> In the normal case (not kexec on panic) user space should down the interfaces
> before calling kexec. Is your user space doing that?

Yes, I am down'ing the interface from userspace in normal kexec case,
but that does not happen on INIT on ia64.

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Khalid

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