[PATCH] kexec ppc64: fix misaligned cmdline

Geoff Levand geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com
Fri Jun 8 02:19:07 EST 2007


Michael Neuling wrote:
> If the cmdline changes between boots, we can get misalignment of the
> bootargs entry, which in turn corrupts our device tree blob and hence
> kills our kexec boot.  Also, if there was no /chosen/bootargs
> previously, we'd never add a new one. 
> 
> This ignores the bootargs while parsing the tree and inserts it later. 
> 
> Signed-off-by: Michael Neuling <mikey at neuling.org>

Hi.

Acked-by: Geoff Levand <geoffrey.levand at am.sony.com>

I tested this with PS3 and it works as expected.  I added it to my
ps3-kexec-tools.git.  With this patch mainline kexec will work
with the PS3.

I still have a work-in-progress patch started by David Woodhouse
to support building a 32 bit kexec executable for PPC64 platforms.
I don't have any definite plan to work on it though.

-Geoff











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