From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com>
Cc: Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: 2.5.69-mm1
Date: 06 May 2003 09:36:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17k949jeh.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20030506083358.348edb4d.akpm@digeo.com>
Andrew Morton <akpm@digeo.com> writes:
> Steven Cole <elenstev@mesatop.com> wrote:
> >
> > I have one machine for testing which is running X, and a kexec reboot
> > glitches the video system when initiated from runlevel 5. Kexec works fine
> > from runlevel 3.
>
> Yes, there are a lot of driver issues with kexec. Device drivers will assume
> that the hardware is in the state which the BIOS left behind.
>
> In this case, the Linus device driver's shutdown functions are obviously not
> leaving the card in a pristine state. A lot of drivers _do_ do this
> correctly. But some don't.
>
> It seems that kexec is really supposed to be invoked from run level 1. ie:
> you run all your system's shutdown scripts before switching. If you'd done
> that then you wouldn't have been running X and all would be well.
>
> do-kexec.sh is for the very impatient ;)
The biggest issue with kexec when you are in X is that nothing
tells X to shutdown. So you have to at least shutdown X manually.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2003-05-06 15:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-05-05 6:16 2.5.69-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-05 15:32 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Andrei Ivanov
2003-05-05 16:45 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Greg KH
2003-05-06 9:49 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Andrei Ivanov
2003-05-05 18:44 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-05 21:01 ` 2.5.69-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-06 11:09 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Dipankar Sarma
2003-05-06 12:02 ` 2.5.69-mm1 David S. Miller
2003-05-06 15:25 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Dipankar Sarma
2003-05-06 14:20 ` 2.5.69-mm1 David S. Miller
2003-05-06 15:47 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Dipankar Sarma
2003-05-05 21:02 ` 2.5.69-mm1 William Lee Irwin III
2003-05-06 14:33 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Steven Cole
2003-05-06 15:33 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Andrew Morton
2003-05-06 15:36 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2003-05-06 16:35 ` 2.5.69-mm1 Steven Cole
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