I played a bit with kexec on the NanoNote today. The first thing I noticed is that, despite the fact that both kexec-tools and kexecboot are included in the software image, the current kernel does not have kexec support, so I’ve built a kernel with CONFIG_KEXEC=y.
I copied the uncompressed kernel[1] to the NanoNote and ran
$ kexec -l /boot/vmlinux --append="$(cat /proc/cmdline)"
to load the kernel into memory: the command completes succesfully, as can
be seen by looking at the contents of /sys/kernel/kexec_loaded.
To make the new kernel boot I added the command
kexec -e
at the end of the stop() function in /etc/init.d/umount, after all
filesystems have been sync'ed and umount'ed, but when I poweroff
the system hangs instead of rebooting.
Have anybody else ever tried kexec on the NanoNote? Did you manage to
get it to work, and how?
[1] build_dir/linux-xburst_qi_lb60/linux-2.6.37.6/vmlinux
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Andrea Bolognani <[email protected]>
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