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| author | Nicolas Schichan <nschichan@freebox.fr> | 2006-10-18 15:14:55 +0200 |
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| committer | Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> | 2006-11-30 01:14:44 +0000 |
| commit | 583bb86fbb9e85287f020fe4eb5352a0ec3c66a3 (patch) | |
| tree | 5aa886f3fd85387d26df30bc33ef24aeda1181f5 /arch/mips/Kconfig | |
| parent | c237923009da464881d89f4bc27c3b5b1a93d61b (diff) | |
[MIPS] Add support for kexec
A tiny userland application loading the kernel and invoking kexec_load for
mips is available here:
http://chac.le-poulpe.net/~nico/kexec/kexec-2006-10-18.tar.gz
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/Kconfig')
| -rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/Kconfig | 17 |
1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index 1443024b1c7..c0da0ffe8d5 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -766,6 +766,23 @@ config TOSHIBA_RBTX4938 endchoice +config KEXEC + bool "Kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)" + depends on EXPERIMENTAL + help + kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your + current kernel, and to start another kernel. It is like a reboot + but it is indepedent of the system firmware. And like a reboot + you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux. + + The name comes from the similiarity to the exec system call. + + It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine + is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not + initially work for you. It may help to enable device hotplugging + support. As of this writing the exact hardware interface is + strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made. + source "arch/mips/ddb5xxx/Kconfig" source "arch/mips/gt64120/ev64120/Kconfig" source "arch/mips/jazz/Kconfig" |