Re: [Fastboot] Re: Kexec for booke PPC processors

On Thu, 2 Mar 2006 09:43, dagriego wrote:

I'm finishing my first pass on getting kexec to work on PPC booke
processor, and needed some insight into how to pass information from the
first kernel to the kexec'ed kernel.  This information is the board
information that the first kernel is given in r3 from the board firmware. 
Is there a standard convention for passing this information?

Yep, it's called the flat device tree.

cheers

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