Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] Add support for ramdisk on ppc32 for uImage-ppc and Elf-ppc

2010-07-29 Thread Matthew McClintock
On Jul 29, 2010, at 3:33 AM, Simon Horman wrote: > On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:14:58PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote: >> This fixes --reuseinitrd and --ramdisk option for ppc32 on >> uImage-ppc and Elf. It works for normal kexec as well as for >> kdump. >> >> When using --reuseinitrd you need t

Re: [PATCH v2 5/7] Add support for ramdisk on ppc32 for uImage-ppc and Elf-ppc

2010-07-29 Thread Simon Horman
On Tue, Jul 20, 2010 at 03:14:58PM -0500, Matthew McClintock wrote: > This fixes --reuseinitrd and --ramdisk option for ppc32 on > uImage-ppc and Elf. It works for normal kexec as well as for > kdump. > > When using --reuseinitrd you need to specifify retain_initrd > on the command line. Also, if

[PATCH v2 5/7] Add support for ramdisk on ppc32 for uImage-ppc and Elf-ppc

2010-07-20 Thread Matthew McClintock
This fixes --reuseinitrd and --ramdisk option for ppc32 on uImage-ppc and Elf. It works for normal kexec as well as for kdump. When using --reuseinitrd you need to specifify retain_initrd on the command line. Also, if you are doing kdump you need to make sure your initrd lives in the crashdump reg