_machine removal breaks kexec?
Benjamin Herrenschmidt
benh at kernel.crashing.org
Tue Apr 4 02:16:34 EST 2006
On Mon, 2006-04-03 at 11:40 +1000, Anton Blanchard wrote:
> Hi,
>
> It looks like the _machine removal broke kexec:
>
> # kexec -l vmlinux
> /proc/device-tree/chosen/linux,platform: No such file or directory
>
> The kexec tools seem to want the linux,platform property:
>
> /* if LPAR, no need to read any more from /chosen */
> if (platform != PLATFORM_PSERIES) {
> closedir(cdir);
> continue;
> }
Damn.... the platform numbers are gone, we need to fix that. (And nobody
complained when I posted the patch twice over the past couple of monthes
btw).
I suppose kexec needs to look for /rtas/hypertas or such ..
Ben.
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