On Sat, Aug 9, 2014 at 11:03 AM, flapflap <[email protected]> wrote:
> William Hermans:
>>>
>>> *So if comparing .configs does not turn up anything, I'd start examining
>>> Robert's build_kernel.sh script, and see which patches it applies*
>>>
>>
>> Yeah that was rich heh, there are literally 100's of patches. Check out
>> linux-dev/patches/ and linux-dev/patches.sh. Some pertain to the
>> framebuffer, and SGX, and to be honest I'm not sure which patches you'd
>> need to fix your problem.
>
> This kernel business is still some black magic to me :) But I'm looking
> forward to understanding what's happening here and there.
>
> At the moment, my only need is/was to add kexec to the kernel as the
> default kernel doesn't provide kexec.
> So far it seems to be there and the HDMI problem is gone, but when I
> call /sbin/kexec in some init scripts I get a "Cannot open /proc/atags"
> error. Maybe that's a bug in my scripts, maybe some other issue specific
> to ARM/BBB (I read somewhere that /proc/atags is deprecated and device
> trees should be used instead; on i386/x86_64 platforms the scripts work).

Did this get pushed to kexec?

http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2012-September/006787.html

@@ -96,6 +101,8 @@ void zImage_arm_usage(void)
  "     --append=STRING       Set the kernel command line to STRING.\n"
  "     --initrd=FILE         Use FILE as the kernel's initial ramdisk.\n"
  "     --ramdisk=FILE        Use FILE as the kernel's initial ramdisk.\n"
+ "     --dtb=FILE            Use FILE as the fdt blob.\n"
+ "     --atags               Use ATAGs instead of device-tree.\n"

you'll need the --dtb=xyz option...

Regards,

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