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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [Cbe-oss-dev] [PATCH] Ignore memory listed in PS3 device tree
Date: Fri, 30 Mar 2007 20:11:46 +0200
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>> The proper way is to parse out just the command line from the 
>> incompatible
>> DT, and use that with the new DT supplied by the bootwrapper.  I 
>> planed
>> to do that in my bootwrapper, but haven't coded it yet.
>
> There is no bootwrapper here. We boot a plain vmlinux, which needs to
> cope.

Maybe you should use a bootwrapper, instead.

It doesn't make sense to duplicate lots of firmware
and bootloader/bootwrapper functionality in the kernel
just for kexec.  (Or to do that at all, really).


Segher