On Wed, Jun 28, 2006 at 10:19:53PM +0200, jf simon wrote: > 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,
AFAIK, yes. Thanks Vivek _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
