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From: "Dale Farnsworth" <dale@farnsworth.org>
Date: Fri, 16 Nov 2007 11:48:26 -0700
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Subject: Re: Kexec on powerpc
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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