[PATCH] kexec tools mipsel port

Tomasz Chmielewski mangoo at wpkg.org
Sat Feb 16 20:41:49 EST 2008


Tomasz Chmielewski schrieb:

(...)

>>> There was a thread about kexec-tools mipsel port on Kexec Mailing 
>>> List  in June 2007.
>>>
>>> What's the current state of this patch?
>>>
>>> Is it working, will be merged, will not be merged?
>>
>> Its still very much in the state of needing someone to
>> nurse it into a merge.
> 
> Funny thing is, kernel supports kexec, but there is no userland support 
> for it (well, unless you patch kexec-tools with the patches you found 
> somewhere on the internet).
> 
> I'll try to see if the old patches posted to this list work for me.

Well, it's not very encouraging:


# kexec -l vmlinux-2.6.23.1
# kexec -e
Starting new kernel
Will call new kernel at 002ca000
Bye ...


And that's about it.

Do I need to specify mem-min and/or mem-max on mipsel?



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