[Cbe-oss-dev] kboot updates

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Tue Mar 4 07:35:34 EST 2008


Scott D. Davilla wrote:
> 	Also how is the shutdown sequence done. kexec tries to run 
> "/sbin/shutdown", "etc/shutdown" or "/bin/shutdown". Yet, I don't see 
> these in the ps3 kboot distro. So how does kexec work under the ps3?

Sorry, I'm not familiar with how kboot works, but for kexec on ps3 I use
'kexec -e', which I see does a reboot syscall:

static inline long kexec_reboot(void)
{
	return (long) syscall(__NR_reboot, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC1, LINUX_REBOOT_MAGIC2, LINUX_REBOOT_CMD_KEXEC, 0);
}

-Geoff




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