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From: Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: _machine removal breaks kexec?
Date: Mon, 3 Apr 2006 12:32:39 -0500
To: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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On Apr 3, 2006, at 11:16 AM, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:

> On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:40 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
>> Hi,
>>
>> It looks like the _machine removal broke kexec:
>>
>>  # kexec -l vmlinux
>>  /proc/device-tree/chosen/linux,platform: No such file or directory
>>
>> The kexec tools seem to want the linux,platform property:
>>
>>         /* if LPAR, no need to read any more from /chosen */
>>         if (platform != PLATFORM_PSERIES) {
>>                 closedir(cdir);
>>                 continue;
>>         }
>
> Damn.... the platform numbers are gone, we need to fix that. (And  
> nobody
> complained when I posted the patch twice over the past couple of  
> monthes
> btw).
>
> I suppose kexec needs to look for /rtas/hypertas or such ..

uugh, can we make kexec not depend on something that embedded systems  
would also have.

- k