Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753023Ab3ISJUY (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 05:20:24 -0400 Received: from mail-pa0-f43.google.com ([209.85.220.43]:36757 "EHLO mail-pa0-f43.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751711Ab3ISJUX (ORCPT ); Thu, 19 Sep 2013 05:20:23 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <1379412095-7213-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> References: <1379412095-7213-1-git-send-email-geert@linux-m68k.org> Date: Thu, 19 Sep 2013 11:20:22 +0200 X-Google-Sender-Auth: 5mj6tjG3qCMb6D2OHWD15evNPRo Message-ID: Subject: Re: Preliminary kexec support for Linux/m68k From: Geert Uytterhoeven To: Anton Blanchard , Benjamin Herrenschmidt Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , linux-m68k , kexec@lists.infradead.org, "linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org" Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1428 Lines: 35 On Tue, Sep 17, 2013 at 12:01 PM, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote: > This is a preliminary set of patches to add kexec support for m68k. > - [PATCH 1/3] m68k: Add preliminary kexec support > - [PATCH 2/3] m68k: Add support to export bootinfo in procfs > - [PATCH 3/3] [RFC] m68k: Add System RAM to /proc/iomem > > Notes: > - The bootinfo is now saved and exported to /proc/bootinfo, so kexec-tools > can read it and pass it (possibly after modification) to the new kernel. > This is similar to /proc/atags on ARM. > - I based [PATCH 3/3] on the PowerPC version, but it's no longer needed as we > now get this information from the bootinfo. > Does anyone think this is nice to have anyway? It seems kexec/kdump on ppc don't use /proc/iomem anymore, and only rely on /proc/device-tree these days? Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/