From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from zproxy.gmail.com (zproxy.gmail.com [64.233.162.201]) by ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 7096D679E0 for ; Fri, 3 Mar 2006 01:32:57 +1100 (EST) Received: by zproxy.gmail.com with SMTP id 13so436532nzp for ; Thu, 02 Mar 2006 06:32:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: <3d42041d0603020632o2d75bd7ao99c7b006042a88d9@mail.gmail.com> Date: Thu, 2 Mar 2006 07:32:56 -0700 From: dagriego To: "Kumar Gala" Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: Kexec for booke PPC processors In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/alternative; boundary="----=_Part_6334_21432851.1141309976277" References: <200603021012.57955.michael@ellerman.id.au> Cc: Michael Ellerman , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, fastboot@lists.osdl.org List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , ------=_Part_6334_21432851.1141309976277 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I'm working on the E500 core, particularly the mpc8540/8560ADS boards - David On 3/1/06, Kumar Gala wrote: > > > On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:43, dagriego wrote: > > > I'm finishing my first pass on getting kexec to work on PPC booke > > > processor, and needed some insight into how to pass information from > the > > > first kernel to the kexec'ed kernel. This information is the board > > > information that the first kernel is given in r3 from the board > firmware. > > > Is there a standard convention for passing this information? > > > > Yep, it's called the flat device tree. > > Which PPC booke are you trying to get this to work on? > > - kumar > > ------=_Part_6334_21432851.1141309976277 Content-Type: text/html; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline I'm working on the E500 core, particularly the mpc8540/8560ADS boards
- David

On 3/1/06, Kumar Gala <galak@kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:43, dagriego wrote:
> > I'm finishing m= y first pass on getting kexec to work on PPC booke
> > processor, = and needed some insight into how to pass information from the
> > = first kernel to the kexec'ed kernel.  This information is the boa= rd
> > information that the first kernel is given in r3 from the boa= rd firmware.
> > Is there a standard convention for passing this i= nformation?
>
> Yep, it's called the flat device tree.

Which PPC booke are you trying to get this to work on?

- kumar

------=_Part_6334_21432851.1141309976277--