On Wed, Dec 13, 2006 at 10:35:08AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Fri, Dec 08, 2006 at 10:32:15AM +1100, Michael Neuling wrote:
> > > >Is there a kexec-tools patch too? How does second kernel know about
> > > >the location of the first kernel's initrd to be reused?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > kexec-tools has to be modified to pass the first kernel initrd. On
> > > powerpc, initrd locations are exported using device-tree. At present,
> > > kexec-tool ignores the first kernel initrd property values and creates
> > > new initrd properties if the user passes '--initrd' option to the kexec
> > > command. So, will be an issue unless first kernel device-tree is passed
> > > as buffer.
> >
> > We've been using the --devicetreeblob kexec-tools option available for
> > POWERPC. This enables you to setup the device tree (and hence, the
> > initrd points) as you like.
> >
> > I'm happy to put together a patch for kexec-tools.
>
> Please do. And please cc me on a copy that applies against kexec-tools-testing.
>
> > Unfortunately this
> > is arch specific. A quick look through the x86, ia64, s390 and ppc64
> > code shows the --initrd option for all these just reads the specified
> > initrd file, pushes it out to memory and uses the base and size pointers
> > to setup the next boot. We'd obviously just skip to the last stage.
> >
> > So what's the kexec-tools option called? --initrd-location <base> <size>?
>
> That sounds fine to me. I think its ok to make it arch specific for
> starters and then move it out to generic code later. That said, if
> you're feeling particularly entergetic, feel free to do the generic
> stuff now and just add null stubs for the other architectures (does
> that makes sense?).
Did anything ever come of this?
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Horms
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