* Amul Shah <amul.shah at unisys.com> [2007-05-11 23:12]: > I am using a redhat derived 2.6.18 linux kernel and I am experiencing a > panic when the second kernel boots. I can't find the exact set of > emails that I want to tell me that kexec on IA64 isn't ready yet. Well, it basically works ... > Horms said this a month ago: > https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/fastboot/2007-March/013286.html > My recommendation is that 2.6.21rc3 is a farily good release for > kexec, > and if you aren't worried about ia64 then 2.6.20 is probably > good too. > If you really need something against 2.6.9, then I guess you > will have > to try to pull the patches out of git, but that is going to be > really hard work given that 2.6.9 is quite old now. > > For the curious, the panic log is below. I did a cursory inspection of > the kernel sources and found that the function start_secondary is called > from head.S. I don't know much about IA64 arch and assembly, so I > thought I would ask first if the IA64 implementation works. Did you try the 'maxpus=1' option for the panic kernel? Thanks, Bernhard
