[oe] RFC: Kexec Cmdline Support

[Uli Luckas]

On Wednesday, 26. September 2007, you wrote:
> On 9/26/07, Uli Luckas <u.luckas at road.de> wrote:
> > By the way, who is the original author of the arm-kexec-utils patch? I'd
> > like
> > to see kexec support pushed upstream which requires a sign-off of the
> > original author.
> >
>
> IIRC, Richard Purdie wrote the original kexec patch for arm. I would love
> to try out your solution. Do you know which version of the vanilla kernel
> now has the proper patches in place?
I use kexec with 2.6.21.

> I would most likely need to do some tweaking, since the original sharp
> bootloader passes a cmdline that is incompatible with 2.6 kernels. 
For now you might have to modify the hard coded base address.

> But I would love to see some support for kexec cmdline editing in the near
> future. 
>
> Henry von Tresckow (hvontres)

Thanks,
Uli

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