[PATCH] UBUNTU: [arm] Fix kexec on ARM by properly calling the relocation function

Daniel Silverstone dsilvers at simtec.co.uk
Wed Jan 28 14:17:28 UTC 2009


On Mon, 2009-01-26 at 11:40 -0500, Michael Casadevall wrote:
> >> Forwarding a patch to fix kexec on ARM. Comments sought.
> > This patch can't work - with how it is, you'll be booting a kernel with
> > the CPU MMU enabled.  Kernels must be booted with the CPU MMU disabled
> > as per the 'booting.txt' documentation, which can be found in the kernel
> > source and on my website.
> I was unaware of this document when I created the patch, I'll make sure to
> refer to it when I take another stab at resolving this issue.

Also you should take a read of:

http://www.simtec.co.uk/products/SWLINUX/files/booting_article.html

Since that details register entry requirements etc. Specifically, check
out section 10 of the document.

Regards,

Daniel.

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