[Fastboot] Re: Kexec for booke PPC processors

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:43, dagriego wrote:
> I'm finishing my first pass on getting kexec to work on PPC booke
> processor, and needed some insight into how to pass information from the
> first kernel to the kexec'ed kernel.  This information is the board
> information that the first kernel is given in r3 from the board firmware. 
> Is there a standard convention for passing this information?

Yep, it's called the flat device tree.

cheers

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