From: R Sharada <sharada@in.ibm.com>
To: Christopher Friesen <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: status of kexec for ppc on 2.6.10, any gotchas?
Date: Fri, 21 Oct 2005 16:32:08 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051021110208.GA3612@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <435876B8.9000706@nortel.com>
Kexec support involves kernel level support per architecture and
a user space kexec-tools.
Generic kexec kernel support for ppc (ppc32/GameCube) was added
sometime back by Albert Herranz, and I think they got included in 2.6.10-mm1
as per:
http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.6/2.6.10/2.6.10-mm1/broken-out/
Albert's code was also posted on this site:
http://www.gc-linux.org/down/isobel/kexec/
ppc64 kexec kernel support was added recently (2.6.12-rc4-mm1)
Eric's site can be used for downloading the kexec-tools.
You may want to cross post kexec discussion mails to fastboot@osdl.org,
as that is the primary list where all kexec discussions happen.
Hope this helps
Thanks and Regards,
Sharada
On Thu, Oct 20, 2005 at 11:03:52PM -0600, Christopher Friesen wrote:
>
> I've been asked to look at kexec for ppc on 2.6.10. The syscall appears
> to be present, but there seem to be additional patches for 2.6.10-mm at:
>
> http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/
>
> Are these patches needed?
>
> I haven't been able to find any current official documentation, although
> I found some old stuff from 2.5 and a writeup at:
>
> http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kexec.html?ca=dgr-lnxw04RebootFast
>
> Is there any official HOWTO on this? Any issues I should look at in
> particular?
>
> Thanks for any pointers,
>
> Chris
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2005-10-21 5:03 status of kexec for ppc on 2.6.10, any gotchas? Christopher Friesen
2005-10-21 11:02 ` R Sharada [this message]
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