On Mon, Sep 19, 2011 at 08:14:21PM +0000, ANDY KENNEDY wrote: > Guys, sorry for the long lines on that last e-mail attempt. > I, unfortunately, have to use LookOut at work. This is a > better formatted message: > > Attempting to make kexec work for Mips32r2. 2.0.1 works, 2.0.2 > doesn't. Looking through the differences of the arch/mips folders > I find that there is a reference to an extern simple_setup_start. > In 2.0.1 this appears to be referencing asm code from the file > simple_setup_start.S, however, in 2.0.2 I cannot find the > referenced location. > > Is this the reason that I cannot get a Linux kernel to boot using > 2.0.2 using the same command line as the 2.0.1? Hi Andy, I'm a little unsure why it is that your platform broke between 2.0.1 and 2.0.2. And I'm even less sure what simple_setup_start is/was (I don't see it in 2.0.1 or 2.0.2 or the current master branch). However, I do have a few suggestions. 1. Is it possible for you to try the latest development tree? It is available at git://github.com/horms/kexec-tools.git while kernel.org is on holidays. 2. If that doesn't work is it possible for your to perform a git bisection between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3? I don't imagine that should take a great deal of time. I have also CCed Matt Evans who made some of the few changes that touched MIPS code between 2.0.2 and 2.0.3.
