Hi Vivek,
>>Here is what I am trying to:
>>I use an IBM Maple (IBM 970 ppc64 cpu) platform. It uses the PIBS
>>firmware. But I want PIBS to load an embedded linux out of flash. Then,
>>from that embedded linux environment, I want to load a linux kernel from
>>the disk. So you are saying that I could use kexec to load the linux
>>kernel fromthe disk?
>>
>>
>>
>
>You should be able to do that as long as your embedded linux kernel
>has got kexec support and this kernel is able to mount the disk where
>second kernel is residing.
>
>
>
One last question:
Linux ppc64 kernels requires that an openfirmware device tree is passed
to them (typically from the firmware) when they boot. Is kexec able to
pass that device tree to the new kernel?
Thanks a lot for your help,
-jf simon
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