Re: Trying to kexec on Allwinner A80

From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin
Date: Mon Apr 06 2020 - 05:16:26 EST


On Mon, Apr 06, 2020 at 10:27:20AM +0200, Corentin Labbe wrote:
> Hello
>
> I am trying to add the last missing Allwinner Soc in kernelci: the A80.
> But this SoC does not have any way to be used in kernelci, no USB nor network in uboot.
> So I have tried to fake uboot since the kernel has network support and run the new kernel via kexec.
>
> But kexec 2.0.18 fail to work:
> kexec --force /tmp/kernel --initrd /tmp/ramdisk --dtb /tmp/dtb --command-line='console=ttyS0,115200n8 root=/dev/ram0 earlycon=uart,mmio32,0x7000000 ip=dhcp'

What happens if you omit the dtb argument?

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