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From: "M. Mohan Kumar" <mohan@in.ibm.com>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [RFC] [PATCH] Write to HVC terminal from purgatory code
Date: Thu, 17 Sep 2009 14:36:02 +0530
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> On Mon, Sep 07, 2009 at 10:44:07AM +0530, M. Mohan Kumar wrote:
> > Write to HVC terminal from purgatory code
> >
> > Current x86/x86-64 kexec-tools print the message "I'm in purgatory" to
> > serial console/VGA while executing the purgatory code.  Implement this
> > feature for POWERPC pseries platform by using the H_PUT_TERM_CHAR
> > hypervisor call by printng to hvc console.
>
> This change seems reasonable to me, can any of the ppc people offer a
> review?
>

Sorry, I forgot to mention that this patch is tested on POWER5 (under 
hypervisor) and POWER4 Full System partition mode (under non-hypervisor)

Regards,
M. Mohan Kumar.