From: "Dale Farnsworth" <dale@farnsworth.org>
To: marco.stornelli@coritel.it, Linuxppc-embedded@ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: Kexec on powerpc
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:48:26 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20071116184826.GA18952@xyzzy.farnsworth.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <10602.129.192.97.5.1195132467.squirrel@nausicaa2.coritel.it>
On Thu, Nov 15, 2007 at 01:14:27PM +0000, marco.stornelli@coritel.it wrote:
> I'm using the latest kernel and I need the kexec support for 85xx
> processor. When I use the menuconfig with ARCH=ppc and the 85xx and
> e500 support, I have the kexec support, but when I use ARCH=powerpc I
> haven't it, but I'm selecting the same processor!! Is it a bug in
> kconfig? Somebody can explain to me why?
I don't think kexec works for ppc-32 arch/powerpc at the present.
We have been working on kexec/kdump support for 32-bit arch/powerpc.
It requires changes both to the kernel and to the kexec-tools package.
I plan to post a first round of patches to linuxppc-dev early next week.
-Dale Farnsworth
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2007-11-15 13:14 Kexec on powerpc marco.stornelli
2007-11-16 18:48 ` Dale Farnsworth [this message]
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