From 583bb86fbb9e85287f020fe4eb5352a0ec3c66a3 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Nicolas Schichan Date: Wed, 18 Oct 2006 15:14:55 +0200 Subject: [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 --- arch/mips/Kconfig | 17 +++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 17 insertions(+) (limited to 'arch/mips/Kconfig') 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" -- cgit v1.2.3 From aa414dff4f7bef29457592414551becdca72dd6b Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Ralf Baechle Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2006 01:14:51 +0000 Subject: [MIPS] Remove duplicate ISA DMA code for 0 DMA channel case. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle --- arch/mips/Kconfig | 11 ++++++----- 1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-) (limited to 'arch/mips/Kconfig') diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig index c0da0ffe8d5..96143670759 100644 --- a/arch/mips/Kconfig +++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig @@ -266,8 +266,8 @@ config MIPS_MALTA select BOOT_ELF32 select HAVE_STD_PC_SERIAL_PORT select DMA_NONCOHERENT - select IRQ_CPU select GENERIC_ISA_DMA + select IRQ_CPU select HW_HAS_PCI select I8259 select MIPS_BOARDS_GEN @@ -534,7 +534,7 @@ config SGI_IP22 select HW_HAS_EISA select IP22_CPU_SCACHE select IRQ_CPU - select NO_ISA if ISA + select GENERIC_ISA_DMA_SUPPORT_BROKEN select SWAP_IO_SPACE select SYS_HAS_CPU_R4X00 select SYS_HAS_CPU_R5000 @@ -881,6 +881,9 @@ config MIPS_NILE4 config MIPS_DISABLE_OBSOLETE_IDE bool +config GENERIC_ISA_DMA_SUPPORT_BROKEN + bool + # # Endianess selection. Suffiently obscure so many users don't know what to # answer,so we try hard to limit the available choices. Also the use of a @@ -1852,13 +1855,11 @@ source "drivers/pci/Kconfig" config ISA bool -config NO_ISA - bool - config EISA bool "EISA support" depends on HW_HAS_EISA select ISA + select GENERIC_ISA_DMA ---help--- The Extended Industry Standard Architecture (EISA) bus was developed as an open alternative to the IBM MicroChannel bus. -- cgit v1.2.3