On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 09:31:34PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > Simon Horman schrieb: >> On Sat, Feb 16, 2008 at 12:50:25PM +0100, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: >>>>> We developed a patch to port kexec-tools to mips arch and included >>>>> support for command line passing through elf boot notes. We did it > > (...) > >>> There was a thread about kexec-tools mipsel port on Kexec Mailing >>> List in June 2007. >>> >>> What's the current state of this patch? >>> >>> Is it working, will be merged, will not be merged? >> >> Its still very much in the state of needing someone to >> nurse it into a merge. > > Funny thing is, kernel supports kexec, but there is no userland support > for it (well, unless you patch kexec-tools with the patches you found > somewhere on the internet). > > I'll try to see if the old patches posted to this list work for me. I'm quite happy to accept patches to add mipsel to kexec-tools (for the kexec-tools-testing tree that I maintain) and include it in the next release. The problem is that I'm not sure what state the patches are in. -- Horms
