On Thursday 31 January 2008 19:25:10 you wrote:
Hi,
> We're starting work on an embedded highly-available product using dual
> Octeon cpus, and I'm looking into the possibility of using kexec/kdump
> as a "flight recorder" to dump fault information to a persistant storage
> location.
>
> I saw the patch adding initial support for kexec, but I was curious
> about the current status. Is anyone using kexec for mips64 SMP systems?
> Is it known to be broken? I'm just trying to get a feel for how much
> work might be involved.
The code used to work on the 32bit mips board I have access to, but as far as
I know it has not been tested on 64bit. I have not tested it on SMP, but
chances are that kexec on mips is broken here too.
Regards,
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Nicolas Schichan
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