[Xen-ia64-devel] [ANNOUNCE] Kexec for Xen on IA64 (Take III)

[Horms <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thu, Feb 08, 2007 at 05:10:34PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 12, 2007 at 01:22:05PM +0900, Horms wrote:
> > Hi,
> > 
> > for far to long now I have been tinkering with patches for Kexec for
> > Xen on IA64. These are part of the work that Magnus Damm and I have been
> > doing, of which the generic and x86 portions were merged for 3.0.4.
> > That is, this is hypervisor and domain 0 kdump/kexec, not domain U,
> > which Gerd Hoffman is working on separately.
> > 
> > Firtsly, before you run off and get too excited, this code is
> > very beta, perhaps alpha. It needs work. And I am hoping that by posting
> > the code here, interested parties can help out.
> > 
> > As the code spans several different trees - xen, kexec-tools, and linux -
> > it is a little hard to pack into an email. So I have created a page,
> > which has all the patches, as well as some documentation on how
> > to build the code, how to run the code, and some of the problems with
> > the code.
> > 
> > http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen.shtml
> > http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen/latest/broken_out/README
> > http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen/latest/broken_out/BUILD
> > 
> > Lastly, I should mention that all development has been on a Tiger 2 box.
> > Testing and development on other platforms would be greatly appreciated.
> 
> Hi,
> 
> I'm happy to announce the second alpha release of this code.
> Currently the following is working for UP (single processor):
> 
>   kexec: Xen->Xen and Xen->Linux
>   kdump: (Xen->Linux)
> 
> http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen.shtml
> http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen/20070208/broken_out/README
> http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen/20070208/broken_out/BUILD
> 
> This release is based on:
>         xen-ia64-unstable, version 13867 (the latest checkout as of writing!)
>       kexec-tools-testing 20061214
>       linux 2.6.20
> 
> I'm more than happy for people to help with this code.
> In fact I am practically begging for help. For some places
> to start, see:
> 
> http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen/20070208/broken_out/PROBLEMS

Hi,

I'm happy to announce the third alpha release of this code.
It is just a minor up-port to xen-ia64-unstable version 13903.
The Linux and kexec-tools portions are unchanged.

http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen.shtml
http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen/20070214/xen-ia64-kexec-20070214.tar.bz2
http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen/20070214/broken_out/README
http://www.vergenet.net/linux/kexec/ia64-xen/20070214/broken_out/BUILD

-- 
Horms
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