mips32 kexec failed, bug?

[Francesco Chiechi]

I know that code can be somewhat imprecise, it used to work for me on a job 
Alessandro and I made for Tvblob

Actually I don't remember much about it, I contributed it in the hope it could 
be useful for othes, but once accepted I never had time to review it

If you feel you can improve it please do it

bye

Francesco

On Sunday 11 October 2009 16:32:39 wilbur.chan wrote:
> mips32 board:
>
>
> I used kexec to reboot a new kernel, but I found that , the second
> kernel stopped when calling 'prom_getenv("memsize") '  in booting.
>
>
> That is , kernel: setup_arch-->prom_init-->'prom_getenv("memsize")'  failed
>
>
> So I checked the code in kexec-tool , and I found that ,in
> mips-simple-setup.S,  register a2 was set to 0, which was passed to
> the second kernel as envirment variable address.
>
>
> I guess here a2 should not be set to 0 , is it a BUG in kexec-tool ,
> when dealing with mips?
>
>
> ps: I don't have mail address of the authors who wrote mips support
> for kexec ,  Francesco Chiechi, Alessandro Rubini , Tvblob s.r.l.
>
> So I wrote directly to this maillist to search for help.
>
> Thank you
>
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