On Thursday 31 January 2008 19:25:10 you wrote: Hi, > We're starting work on an embedded highly-available product using dual > Octeon cpus, and I'm looking into the possibility of using kexec/kdump > as a "flight recorder" to dump fault information to a persistant storage > location. > > I saw the patch adding initial support for kexec, but I was curious > about the current status. Is anyone using kexec for mips64 SMP systems? > Is it known to be broken? I'm just trying to get a feel for how much > work might be involved. The code used to work on the 32bit mips board I have access to, but as far as I know it has not been tested on 64bit. I have not tested it on SMP, but chances are that kexec on mips is broken here too. Regards, -- Nicolas Schichan