From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree From: David Woodhouse To: Geoff Levand In-Reply-To: <4612EA16.7070102@am.sony.com> References: <1175208237.3122.78.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1175636904.10567.8.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> <4612D8FE.1070400@am.sony.com> <200704040055.36173.arnd@arndb.de> <4612EA16.7070102@am.sony.com> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Tue, 03 Apr 2007 20:10:02 -0400 Message-Id: <1175645402.10567.38.camel@shinybook.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Cc: linuxppc-dev list , nhorman@redhat.com, cbe-oss-dev@ozlabs.org, Arnd Bergmann , Ben Collins List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 16:58 -0700, Geoff Levand wrote: > But you seem to say we can do something in the first stage kernel and pass > some info to the second stage kernel? The trouble with that is that when > the kernel is used as a first stage, where does the info come from? >>From the bootwrapper, surely? If the bootwrapper sets up the initial device-tree and passes it to the first stage kernel, then all that information will be passed through when you kexec the second stage vmlinux. -- dwmw2