Kexec support for FSL-BookE, take two

[wilbur.chan]

2010/1/16 Sebastian Andrzej Siewior <linuxppc-dev at ml.breakpoint.cc>:
> 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.


Hi, sebastian

Is it possible to  avoid setting up  the 1:1 mapping  but to convert
physical address into virt before relocate , like mips do?

2010/1/16 Kumar Gala <galak at kernel.crashing.org>:

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

I'm happy to test it too   :D