From: Simon Horman <horms@verge.net.au>
To: Matthew McClintock <msm@freescale.com>
Cc: muvarov@gmail.com, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
sebastian@breakpoint.cc, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/7] Fixup booting with device trees and uImage/elf on ppc32
Date: Tue, 27 Jul 2010 11:55:06 +0900 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100727025506.GA1944@verge.net.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1279687384-9770-1-git-send-email-msm@freescale.com>
[Cced linuxppc-dev]
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 11:42:57PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote:
> This patch series adds full support for booting with a flat device tree
> with either uImage or elf file formats. Kexec and Kdump should work, and
> you should also be able to use ramdisks or reuse your current ramdisk as well
>
> This patch series was tested on an mpc85xx system with a kernel version
> 2.6.35-rc3
>
> v1: Initial version
>
> v2: Added support for fs2dt (file system to device tree)
>
> v3: Fix some misc. git problems I had and other code cleanups
Hi Matthew,
I'm a little concerned that these changes are non trivial and haven't had
much review. But I am prepared to put them into my tree once 2.0.2 is
released - perhaps that way they will get some test coverage. Does
that work for you?
>
> Matthew McClintock (7):
> Restore kexec uImage-ppc to working state
> Fix case where phys_addr_t != unsigned long when reading proc entries
> Update uImage to support crash kernel and misc fixes
> Update Elf-ppc to support crash kernel and misc fixes
> Add support for ramdisk on ppc32 for uImage-ppc and Elf-ppc
> Add support for reworking flat device tree support
> Add documentation/howto for mpc85xx systems
>
> doc/mpc85xx.txt | 190 +++++++++++++++++++++
> kexec/arch/ppc/Makefile | 1 +
> kexec/arch/ppc/fixup_dtb.c | 298 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-
> kexec/arch/ppc/fixup_dtb.h | 6 +-
> kexec/arch/ppc/include/arch/options.h | 3 +
> kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-elf-ppc.c | 186 +++++++++------------
> kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.c | 262 +++++++++++++++++------------
> kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-ppc.h | 3 +
> kexec/arch/ppc/kexec-uImage-ppc.c | 136 ++++++++++++---
> kexec/arch/ppc/ops.h | 1 -
> purgatory/arch/ppc/purgatory-ppc.c | 5 +
> 11 files changed, 852 insertions(+), 239 deletions(-)
> create mode 100644 doc/mpc85xx.txt
>
>
>
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2010-07-27 2:55 ` Simon Horman [this message]
2010-07-27 3:59 ` [PATCH v3 0/7] Fixup booting with device trees and uImage/elf on ppc32 Maxim Uvarov
2010-07-27 4:22 ` Matthew McClintock
2010-07-29 9:18 ` Simon Horman
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