Re: Kexec on ARM? (Was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)
Hello, On Thu, 03 Apr 2008, Tomasz Chmielewski wrote: > kexec and kexec-tools work on debian-arm - I use it on FSG-3: > > http://wpkg.org/Running_Debian_on_Freecom_FSG-3#kexec Great. I just managed to get kexec-tools compiled. Now I've to go and compile that kernel! Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kexec on ARM? (Was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)
Kapil Hari Paranjape schrieb: Hello, On Thu, 03 Apr 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: * Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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 -- Tomasz Chmielewski -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kexec on ARM? (Was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)
Hello, On Thu, 03 Apr 2008, Martin Michlmayr wrote: > * Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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. Regards, Kapil. -- -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
Re: Kexec on ARM? (Was Re: encrypted root fs on a slug and crypto-modules)
* Kapil Hari Paranjape <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [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/ -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]
