On Tue, Oct 15, 2013 at 07:50:57PM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> kexec support for Linux/m68k (tools part)
>
> This is a set of patches to add kexec support for m68k to kexec-tools.
>
> - Kexec only, no kdump support yet (do you have enough RAM to keep a
> crashdump kernel in memory at all times? ;-)
>
> Patches:
> - [PATCH 1/3] kexec: Let slurp_file_len() return the number of bytes
> - v2: no changes
> - [PATCH 2/3] kexec: Extract slurp_fd()
> - v2: new patch
> - [PATCH 3/3] kexec: Add m68k support
> - v2:
> - Fix handling of virtual and physical addresses, for machines where
> memory doesn't start at zero,
> - Print a warning if the kernel size exceeds 4 MiB, as current kernels
> cannot handle that,
> - Check struct bootversion at the start of the kernel, and print a
> warning if it cannot be found or doesn't match,
> - Replace literal 4096 by PAGE_SIZE,
> - Handle removal of page zero at the ELF program segment level, as
> m68kboot does,
> - Remove -PAGE_SIZE for the ramdisk location now the bug in
> locate_hole() is fixed,
> - Use endian-correct types for bootinfo,
> - Remove unused -? option handling, cfr. commit
> bf9d0f055c791a26b2237b5a12b48ae1b7e0d550 ("kexec: Remove unused -?
> option handling"),
> - Use <asm/bootinfo.h> instead of our own definitions.
>
> Notes:
> - Based on git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
>
> - Tagged bootinfo is read from /proc/bootinfo by default, but this can be
> overridden using --bootinfo. No bootinfo editor is provided.
> The kexec command will replace/delete command line and ramdisk tags in the
> bootinfo.
Thanks,
I've taken a quick look over this and it seems reasonable to me.
However, I wonder if I should wait for review of the kernel-side
to be completed before applying the kexec-tools patches.
Let me know what you think.
