Robert Michel wrote: > Salve! > > Does the MIPS CPUs makes a patch like kexec possible? > > Kexec is a kernel patch which allows you to start another kernel. MIPS kernels are usually position dependent code, and loaded in unmapped memory, so a kernel would need to overwrite itself for kexec. I don't know if kexec is flexible enough to handle this. > IMHO would such a kernel patch would be handy, especialy for > small MIPS Linux boxes. For more info about kexec read e.g. > http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-kexec.html Frankly, I don't see what kexec is good for. Who else besides kernel developers would need to reboot a machine continuously? Thiemo
