On Wed, Aug 08, 2007 at 06:41:20PM -0700, Andrew Sharp wrote: > > We could sure make use of kexec for quick reboots (it bloody takes > > forever for the PROM to set up ECC memory). The config option is in > > Kconfig; I haven't checked the kernel source. But the userspace > > package kexec-tools barfs on the mipsel arch in configure. > > Answering my own question on this part at least, it didn't take long to > find this patch, so we'll see how that goes. > > http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2007-June/000214.html > > > Is anybody using this on MIPS? Do the kernel portions work for > > anyone? I recently noticed the kernel part was fairly broken, did (if ever) only work for 32-bit machines. I fixed what I could but I don't have the necessary test setup. See http://www.linux-mips.org/git?p=linux.git;a=commit;h=bb73f9d8ee3133800da546832ca7f09d3f27695e Ralf
