kexec for powerpc mpc85xx processors

Matthew McClintock msm at freescale.com
Sat Jul 10 03:23:20 EDT 2010


On Sat, 2010-07-10 at 15:37 +0900, Simon Horman wrote:
> On Sat, Jul 10, 2010 at 10:14:25AM +0530, krish wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > I am using linux-2.6.34.1 version for both mpc83xx and mpc85xx processors.
> > This version of kernel supports kexec for both 83xx and 85xx processors.
> > I have been using ELDK toolchain for PowerPC processors.
> > I am using u-boot as boot loader and uImage & dtb images as Linux images.
> > 
> > I have downloaded 2.0.2-rc1 package and tried to compile for mpc83xx.
> > I have used following command to configure kexec-tools for ppc.
> > ./configure --prefix=/home/krishna/work/kexec-tools-6dd624d/
> > CC=/opt/ELDK41/usr/bin/ppc_6xx-gcc LD=/opt/ELDK41/usr/bin/ppc_6xx-ld
> > BUILD_CC=/usr/bin/gcc --target=ppc --host=i686
> > CC=/opt/ELDK41/usr/bin/ppc_6xx-gcc
> > TARGET_CC=/opt/ELDK41/usr/bin/ppc_6xx-gcc;
> > 
> > The compilation was broken for PPC.
> 
> Could you provide the compile errors that you are seeing?
> 

Also, how do you know your kernel supports kexec?

-Matthew





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