On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 10:35:42PM -0800, Maxim Uvarov wrote: > 2012/1/24 Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au>: > > Hi, > > > > sorry for the extensive delay in responding to this. > > I am now back from Christmas, New Year, holidays and > > attending LCA 2012. > > > > On Fri, Dec 16, 2011 at 05:27:31AM +0000, ANDY KENNEDY wrote: > >> Simon/All, > >> > >> After two months, I'm back working on this again. ?After 3 hours > >> tonight, I have the final result of what you told me to do. ?Looks like, > >> based on the comment: > >> > >> ? ? - remove kexec/arch/mips/mips-setup-simple.S which prepares cmdline for > >> ? ? ? new kernel, it is better to move this work to kernel code. BTW this code was > >> ? ? ? compilable only on o32 because of t4 is not defined on 64-64 or n32 MIPS ABIs. > >> > >> The problem is that my 2.6.36.2 apparently doesn't have whatever Maxim > >> is talking about. ?Therefore, the newer versions must not be backwards > >> compatible. ?Perhaps this is okay with you guys. ?If so, I'll just make > >> sure to include a patch to BuildRoot that clearly states that the v2.0.1 > >> is the only version that works with *some* versions of MIPS. ?If you > >> guys were expecting this to be backwards compatible, I'll gladly work > >> with you to test whatever you need checked out. ?Just let me know. > > > > It is not apparent to me that the kernel code Maxim makes mention of > > exists in any released kernel. I think that the best option at this > > stage would be to revert that portion of his change. > > > > Maxim, do you have any thoughts on this? > > > > Yes, kernel patches were not accepted and looks like stuck linux-mips@ > queue forever. > Reverting this patches it ok for me especially if somebody going to > work on them. As I remember > the was problem with supporting all mips ABIs (o32, n32, 32-64). It's > mostly related to asm purgatory > code. It will be nice if somebody can synchronize kernel and user land > parts and make mips kexec code > board independent. I think at this time it should be much easy since > mips supports device tree. Thanks Maxim. Andy can you prepare a patch to revert the problematic portion of the change?
