Backported patch to 2.4.19 for kexec does not work was RE: Backoirted oatch to 2.4.19 for kexec does not work

Gregg C Levine hansolofalcon at worldnet.att.net
Sun Aug 10 21:13:00 CEST 2003


Hello from Gregg C Levine
Sorry! Predictable typo in subject name, content same.
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> -----Original Message-----
> From: linuxbios-admin at clustermatic.org [mailto:linuxbios-
> admin at clustermatic.org] On Behalf Of Gregg C Levine
> Sent: Sunday, August 10, 2003 9:26 PM
> To: Linuxbios
> Subject: Backoirted oatch to 2.4.19 for kexec does not work
> 
> Hello from Gregg C Levine
> I don't know why, Andrew, but the patch your company supplied via
the
> FTP site, for the 2.4.19 kernel, applied correctly, and I was able
to
> build the kernel. But the expected event didn't work. When I issued
a
> "kexec kernel.elf", which was built using the latest version of
> mkelfImage from the FTP site, that Eric has for his company, I got
the
> same expected output as before. Here it is:
> Script started on Sun Aug 10 21:11:01 2003
> root at drwho4:/usr/src/lobos/work# kexec kernel.elf
> kexec_load failed: Function not implemented
> entry       = (nil)
> nr_segments = 4
> segment[0].buf   = 0x80a8ea0
> segment[0].bufsz = 158
> segment[0].mem   = (nil)
> segment[0].memsz = 158
> segment[1].buf   = 0x80a3888
> segment[1].bufsz = 559c
> segment[1].mem   = 0x10000
> segment[1].memsz = 1aa24
> segment[2].buf   = 0x80a8e28
> segment[2].bufsz = 0
> segment[2].mem   = 0x91000
> segment[2].memsz = 70
> segment[3].buf   = 0x40001008
> segment[3].bufsz = b48dc
> segment[3].mem   = 0x100000
> segment[3].memsz = 700000
> root at drwho4:/usr/src/lobos/work# exit
> Script done on Sun Aug 10 21:11:12 2003
> 
> Incidentally that's the same thing that I got before. Did this
> function work for you?
> What distribution did you use for building your kernel, and, ah,
test
> system?
> As it happens, this is built using Slackware 8.0, with the compiler
> version as 2.95.3, and the binary utilities at 2.10.90. Do I need to
> upgrade them for attempting to build the later kernels?
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