Kexec: BE kernel on ARM VE TC2

[Nicolas Pitre]

On Thu, 8 Aug 2013, Will Deacon wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 05, 2013 at 01:12:17PM +0100, Vijay Kilari wrote:
> > Hi Will,
> > 
> > I am trying to make kexec work on BE kernel on ARM VE TC2.
> > 
> > First, to make KEXEC work with SMP on ARM VE TC2 board,
> > I set nr_cpus=2 (i.e boot only A15's) this works with LE kernel.
> 
> Interesting, is this with a mainline kernel? I don't see how SMP kexec can
> work on TC2 without additional patches to park the secondary cores safely.

BTW those patches are available in linux-next at the moment.


Nicolas