Re: Maple PPC970 kexec crash-dump problems

2009-02-06 Thread Milton Miller
On Feb 4, 2009, at 12:48 PM, Benjamin Walsh wrote: Hi Milton, I've tracked it down to the device tree passed to the second kernel being screwed-up when patched by kexec-tools. Namely, it was creating linux,usable-memory entries that were wrong, and the MMU initialization hung when it failed

Re: Maple PPC970 kexec crash-dump problems

2009-02-04 Thread Benjamin Walsh
Hi Milton, I've tracked it down to the device tree passed to the second kernel being screwed-up when patched by kexec-tools. Namely, it was creating linux,usable-memory entries that were wrong, and the MMU initialization hung when it failed allocating for the page tables. I hacked the tool, and go

Re: Maple PPC970 kexec crash-dump problems

2009-01-23 Thread Milton Miller
On Sat Jan 24 at 07:59:47 EST in 2009, Benjamin Walsh wrote: I am trying to use kexec with a crash dump kernel on a Maple board (Motorola ATCA6101 to be precise). This board is running a two-CPU PPC970FX. I am running a 2.6.27-10 kernel and have tried both older kexec-tools and the newest ones

Maple PPC970 kexec crash-dump problems

2009-01-23 Thread Benjamin Walsh
Hi all, I am trying to use kexec with a crash dump kernel on a Maple board (Motorola ATCA6101 to be precise). This board is running a two-CPU PPC970FX. I am running a 2.6.27-10 kernel and have tried both older kexec-tools and the newest ones. I have tried SMP and non-SMP kernels. Using kexec -l t