On Mon, 23 May 2011 about 10:50:07 -0600, Dave Carroll wrote: > I'm withdrawing this patch for the moment, due to two areas that need > further research; > > 1) An adjacent FDT blob, as mentioned by Milton Miller, and >
Ok ... by the way, see move_device_tree() in arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c > 2) Potential interaction with the crash kernel, as used in > init/initramfs.c which already goes around the start and end of crashk_res, which is adjusted to PAGE_ALIGN in reserve_crashkernel() in machine_kexec.c > If anyone sees other interactions, please feel free to let me know ... > > Thanks, > -Dave Carroll One interaction that I have ignored is preserve_initrd overlapping crash kernel. Loading the crash kernel destroys the preserved initrd. But that is beyond the scope of your current patch (and probably a seperate patch, with cross-architecture scope). milton _______________________________________________ Linuxppc-dev mailing list Linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org https://lists.ozlabs.org/listinfo/linuxppc-dev
