Kexec support for FSL-BookE, take two

Kumar Gala galak at kernel.crashing.org
Sat Jan 16 04:53:13 EST 2010


On Jan 15, 2010, at 10:41 AM, Sebastian Andrzej Siewior wrote:

> This is take two :)
> SMP support did not work in the first one and due to the lack of a working
> SMP machine it is still absent. I took the e500v1 problem into account and
> the result is that I now use multiple 256MiB mappings.
> The final mapping covers the first 2GiB so the part of the highmem should
> be also covered and not just kernel memory.
> 
> The first three patches prepare the entry code to work outside of the
> first page. Patch 4 simply moves code and finally patch 5 implements the
> kexec functionality.

What do you think we need for SMP support? I'm happy to test out on SMP HW (8572)

- k


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