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Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree
From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
To: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
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Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 19:13:47 +0100
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On Fri, 2007-03-30 at 20:11 +0200, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> Maybe you should use a bootwrapper, instead.
> 
> It doesn't make sense to duplicate lots of firmware
> and bootloader/bootwrapper functionality in the kernel
> just for kexec.  (Or to do that at all, really).

kexec has a --devicetreeblob option, if we need to resort to that.
And we're not talking about "lots of functionality". It's just a case of
ignoring the memory which is mentioned in the device-tree.

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dwmw2