Naresh Bhat nareshgbhat at gmail.com
Thu Jan 10 07:16:07 EST 2013


Hi,

The KEXEC feature is working fine on ARM cortex-a15 versatile express
target.  I have used bleeding edge kexec-tools and v3.8-rc2 kernel.

Thank you very  much for all the support and help.

Regards
-Naresh Bhat

On Fri, Dec 14, 2012 at 8:05 PM, Sven Neumann <s.neumann at raumfeld.com> wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Fri, 2012-12-14 at 19:39 +0530, Naresh Bhat wrote:
>
>> I can see you have tested a patch from "Daniel Mack"
>> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2012-December/007526.html
>>
>> Can you please help me with the following
>>
>> 1. On which target it has been tested ?
>> 2. Which kernel is used for testing ?
>> 3. What are the --command-line arguments you have passed ?
>
> The target is a custom hardware based on an TI AM33xx ARM Cortex A8
> processor. The platform is quite similar to a Beaglebone.
>
> We've tested with Linux 3.7-rc8.
>
> We used
>
>  kexec --append="`cat /proc/cmdline` <extra-parameter>" --dtb=<device-tree-blob> --force uImage
>
> where <extra-parameter> is an extra boot parameter that we append to the
> currently used cmdline and <device-tree-blob> is the filename of a
> device-tree-blob created using dtc.
>
>
> Regards,
> Sven
>
>



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-Naresh Bhat



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