[PATCH] kexec tools mipsel port

[Simon Horman]

On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:31:34PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
> Simon Horman schrieb:
>> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:50:25PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote:
>>>>> We developed a patch to port kexec-tools to mips arch and included
>>>>> support for command line passing through elf boot notes.  We did it
>
> (...)
>
>>> 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.

I'm quite happy to accept patches to add mipsel to kexec-tools
(for the kexec-tools-testing tree that I maintain) and include
it in the next release.

The problem is that I'm not sure what state the patches are in.

-- 
Horms