[Cbe-oss-dev] kexec troubles on ps3

[Geoff Levand]

Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Mon, 2008-07-07 at 11:23 +0200, Stefan Assmann wrote:
>> Hi all,
>> 
>> I'm having trouble with kexecing a kernel on opensuse. Strangely kexec
>> works from inside petitboot, but it fails to kexec another kernel from
>> within opensuse.
> 
> Hi Stefan,
> 
>> scenario:
>> petitboot: kexec 2.6.25.5 (opensuse) works
>> opensuse: kexec 2.6.25.5 (same kernel as from petitboot) fails

Does opensuse -> opensuse work?

>> kexec version in both cases is kexec-tools-testing 20080324
> 
> My guess is there's something loaded in the opensuse kernel that's not
> kexec'ing nicely that isn't loaded by the petitboot kernel.

Yes, that is usually the case, either it hangs going down, or
the HV resources don't get released so fails on startup.

-Geoff