Fwd: Kexec support for PS3 (ppc64)

[Mohan Kumar M]

On Tue, Mar 11, 2008 at 06:40:46PM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> When the first stage kernel goes down it releases all hypervisor
> resources so that whatever boots next can successful open those
> resources.  The frame buffer is one of those resources that are
> released, and after it is, there will be no more output to the
> display until the second stage image brings up its display.  It
> is not a matter of adding print statements or string formatting.
>

Geoff,

What about using Hypervisor call H_PUT_TERM_CHAR?

I used this call to debug the first kernel kexec shutdown sequence.

Regards,
Mohan.