[PATCH v2 5/7] Add support for ramdisk on ppc32 for uImage-ppc and Elf-ppc

Simon Horman horms at verge.net.au
Thu Jul 29 18:33:25 EST 2010


On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:14:58PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote:
> This fixes --reuseinitrd and --ramdisk option for ppc32 on
> uImage-ppc and Elf. It works for normal kexec as well as for
> kdump.
> 
> When using --reuseinitrd you need to specifify retain_initrd
> on the command line. Also, if you are doing kdump you need to make
> sure your initrd lives in the crashdump region otherwise the
> kdump kernel will not be able to access it. The --ramdisk option
> should always work.

Thanks, I have applied this change.
I had to do a minor merge on the Makefile,
could you verify that the result is correct?


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