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Re: Kexec on ARM? (Was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)



* Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> [2008-04-01 16:15]:
> I didn't check that kexec is currently not supported on "arm"
> under Debian. :-(
> 
> However, I note that there is supposed to be some support for
> kexec on arm since 2.6.22 but it is not built-in for the Debian
> kernels. Is the reason for this documented somewhere?

There's no good reason it's disabled apart from the fact that there
has been no demand for it yet.  Can you re-compile the Debian kernel
with kexec (*) and tell me if it works.  If so, I'm happy to enable
it.

(*) If you cannot compile your own kernel, I can prepare one for you
to test.
-- 
Martin Michlmayr
http://www.cyrius.com/


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