[oe] RFC: Kexec Cmdline Support

[Hans Henry von Tresckow]

On 10/19/07, Uli Luckas <luckas at musoft.de> wrote:
>
> Am Tuesday, 9. October 2007 schrieb Hans Henry von Tresckow:
> > Ok, I have tested your patch and it works very well. I think the only
> real
> > stumbling block left is figuring out a way to get the base address for
> the
> > ATAG list without hard-coding it. I think if we can somehow access the
> > machine_desc structure in the kernel from user space, this would be
> easy.
> > Unfortunately I am not very good at kernel hacking yet, so if you or
> > someone else on the list has an idea, please let me know.
>
> Hi Henry,
> sorry for letting you wait so long. I am out of office until 10/29. After
> that
> I can provide a kernel patch to export the ATAG list's base address and
> also
> the old ATAG list. For now the patch will be against 2.6.21 though, as I
> don't have a running, more recent kernel available.
>
> Regards
> Uli
>
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Uli,
Any luck getting that patch put together? I would really love to start
testing this soon :)

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Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)