Re: 2.5.69-mm1

[ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)]

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
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