On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:18:30AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote: > in other words, you _can't_ just "run a random kernel", because when > you start up a kernel "from scratch", the machine state is assumed to > be from "cold boot". i.e. no ongoing DMA, no non-maskable interrupts, > no watchdog timers, nothing.
But that is exactly what kexec() does, apparently successfully on most platforms, just not (yet) on the kirkwood variant I'm using. -- Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-arm-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org Archive: http://lists.debian.org/20110131123015.GB4734@localhost
