Bug 551875

Summary:	kexec.ppc does not work. Fedora should ship kexec.ppc64
Product:	[Fedora] Fedora	Reporter:	Andrea <mariofutire>
Component:	kexec-tools	Assignee:	Neil Horman <nhorman>
Status:	CLOSED NOTABUG	QA Contact:	Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version:	12	CC:	nhorman
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Description Andrea 2010-01-02 19:59:38 UTC

Description of problem:

I'm trying to use kexec-tools on a PS3 running Fedora 12.

kexec -l /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32.2 --append="ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_ps3-lv_root" --initrd=/boot/initramfs-2.6.32.2.img

get_memory_ranges(): Unsupported platform
Could not get memory layout

This is because this function is not implemented for ppc, but only for ppc64.
There is not kexec-tools.ppc64 in the repositories.

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

kexec-tools-2.0.0-28.fc12.ppc.rpm

How reproducible:

Always

Steps to Reproduce:
1. kexec -l /boot/vmlinuz-XXXX --append="ro root=/dev/mapper/vg_ps3-lv_root" --initrd=/boot/initramfs-XXX

replace XXX with the name of one of your installed kernels.

Actual results:

get_memory_ranges(): Unsupported platform
Could not get memory layout

Expected results:

It should work.

Additional info:

The version for ppc64 should fix this problem.

Comment 1 Neil Horman 2010-01-03 02:52:26 UTC

http://koji.fedoraproject.org/koji/buildinfo?buildID=142635

Koji is certainly building it.  I expect its not in the rpositories because of some ppc64 multilib issue.  I expect you;ll have to download and install it manually.