[Fastboot] Re: Kexec for booke PPC processors

dagriego dagriego at gmail.com
Fri Mar 3 01:32:56 EST 2006


I'm working on the E500 core, particularly the mpc8540/8560ADS boards
- David

On 3/1/06, Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org> wrote:
>
> > 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.
>
> Which PPC booke are you trying to get this to work on?
>
> - kumar
>
>
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