[PATCH 6/7] arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at redhat.com
Tue Oct 7 11:45:20 PDT 2014


On Tue, Oct 07, 2014 at 11:42:00AM -0700, Geoff Levand wrote:
> Hi Vivek,
> 
> On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 09:44 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > So as Mark and I discussed need of purgatory code in other mails, are you
> > plannign to enable purgatory on arm64.
> 
> Adding purgatory code to arm64 is low priority, and I currently
> have no plan to do that.  Users are asking for kdump, and proper
> UEFI support, so that is what I will work towards.

I think having purgatory enabled is very important here as in kernel
you are hardcoding that one of the segments is DTB and doing all the
magic tricks w.r.t putting a magic number. I think as an interface
that seems bad. So I think atleast we will to fix the purgatory part
of it.

Thanks
Vivek



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