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 1443024..c0da0ff 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 v1.1