Kdump/kexec for mpc85xx

[McClintock Matthew-B29882]

On Wed, Oct 26, 2011 at 11:57 PM, radha krishna <ramamru at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi ,
>
> The subject is changed to "Kdump/kexec for mpc85xx", as i am going to use it
> on P2010 and MPC8567 processors as will. So that it will not confuse others
> and to continue as a separate topic. In fact, i have selected P2041 which is
> e500mc core, for my next project.
> Please provide more details on "how to Kdump/kexec for 85xx?". I mean open
> source versions of kexec-tools, linux versions, etc....
> At preset, i have been using linux-2.6.32 on P2010 based board and ELDK42 as
> tool chain.

You will need a newer kernel, I'm not precise of the exact release.
But kexec-tools project contains a HOWTO in the project under
'docs/mpc85xx.txt'. Please read that over and give it a shot. It
should work for the P2010 or the P2041 cores.

-M