kexec reboot broken with ioatdma?
Roland Dreier
rdreier at cisco.com
Wed Dec 16 18:42:20 EST 2009
> If its reset in a standard path, then yes that seems sensible to me.
> I'm mainly concerned about avoiding something along the lines of:
>
> if (is_booting_from_kexec)
> reset_hw();
I think we all agree... the idea is to change from
init_hw()
{
/* assume hw is in pristine state */
do_init();
}
to
init_hw()
{
/* hw is in unknown state */
reset_hw();
do_init();
}
- R.
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