[Yakkety Proposed Testing]
ubuntu@test:~$ cat /etc/issue
Ubuntu 16.10 \n \l
ubuntu@test:~$ sudo apt policy kexec-tools
kexec-tools:
Installed: (none)
Candidate: 1:2.0.10-2ubuntu1.1
Version table:
1:2.0.10-2ubuntu1.1 500
500 http://ports.ubuntu.com/ubuntu-ports yakkety-proposed/main arm64
Packages
ubuntu@test:~$
ubuntu@test:~$ uname -a
Linux test 4.10.0-10-generic #13~ubunturc2+build.1-Ubuntu SMP Tue Feb 28
23:33:09 UTC 2017 aarch64 aarch64 aarch64 GNU/Linux
ubuntu@test:~$
ubuntu@test:~$ sudo kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-4.10.0-10-generic
--initrd=/boot/initrd.img-4.8.0-41-generic --reuse-cmdline
ubuntu@test:~$ sudo kexec -e
[ 1095.110521] kexec_core: Starting new kernel
** Tags removed: verification-needed
** Tags added: verification-done-yakkety
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https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1659618
Title:
Enable ARM64 support in kexec-tools
Status in kexec-tools package in Ubuntu:
Fix Released
Status in kexec-tools source package in Xenial:
Fix Committed
Status in kexec-tools source package in Yakkety:
Fix Committed
Status in kexec-tools package in Debian:
Fix Released
Bug description:
[IMPACT]
* kexec-tools in Xenial (16.04) currently does not support ARM64
architecture.
* Backport support for ARM64 arch from upstream
https://github.com/horms/kexec-tools
* Majority of the patches are contained in kexec/arch/arm64/ except for
one patch that impacts purgatory and common device tree routines.
[TEST CASE]
* I built kexec-tools for ARM64 and tested it on HW using the following
testcase:
$ sudo kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-<version>-generic
--initrd=/boot/initrd.img-<version>-generic
--command-line="root=UUID=<uuid> ro vt.handoff=7"
$ sudo kexec -e
* I was able to kexec the new kernel successfully.
* [ 6702.357899] kexec_core: Starting new kernel
[ 0.000000] Booting Linux on physical CPU 0x200
[ 0.000000] Linux version <version>-generic (buildd@bos01-arm64-008)
(gcc version 5.4.0 20160609 (Ubuntu/Linaro 5.4.0-6ubuntu1~16.04.4) )
[ 0.000000] Boot CPU: AArch64 Processor [510f8000]
[REGRESSION POTENTIAL]
* Since patches are confined to arm[64] there is a low overall risk of
regression.
[OTHER INFO]
* You can find a Xenial kexec-tools package built for AMD64, i386 and
ARM64 in my PPA
https://launchpad.net/~manjo/+archive/ubuntu/kexec-tools
* This package is built using the Xenial source package for kexec-tools
with ARM64 enablement patches applied.
* Please pull the changes from my PPA package and integrate into Ubuntu
Xenial kexec-tools after review.
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