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

[Tomasz Chmielewski <mangoo@wpkg.org>]

Kapil Hari Paranjape schrieb:
> Hello,
>
> On Thu, 03 Apr 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote:
> > * Kapil Hari Paranjape <kapil@imsc.res.in> [2008-04-01 16:15]:
> > > 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.
>
> I'll first see if kexec-tools can be compiled. This might take
> less time than compiling the kernel. ;-)
>
> Without kexec-tools the procedure I outlined wouldn't work anyway.

kexec and kexec-tools work on debian-arm - I use it on FSG-3:

http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_Freecom_FSG-3#kexec



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Tomasz Chmielewski