[MIPS] Add support for kexec

A tiny userland application loading the kernel and invoking kexec_load for 
mips is available here:

http://chac.le-poulpe.net/~nico/kexec/kexec-2006-10-18.tar.gz

Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>

1 files changed, 17 insertions, 0 deletions

diff --git a/arch/mips/Kconfig b/arch/mips/Kconfig
index 1443024b1c7c..c0da0ffe8d57 100644
--- a/arch/mips/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/mips/Kconfig
@@ -766,6 +766,23 @@ config TOSHIBA_RBTX4938
 
 endchoice
 
+config KEXEC
+        bool "Kexec system call (EXPERIMENTAL)"
+        depends on EXPERIMENTAL
+        help
+          kexec is a system call that implements the ability to shutdown your
+          current kernel, and to start another kernel.  It is like a reboot
+          but it is indepedent of the system firmware.   And like a reboot
+          you can start any kernel with it, not just Linux.
+
+          The name comes from the similiarity to the exec system call.
+
+          It is an ongoing process to be certain the hardware in a machine
+          is properly shutdown, so do not be surprised if this code does not
+          initially work for you.  It may help to enable device hotplugging
+          support.  As of this writing the exact hardware interface is
+          strongly in flux, so no good recommendation can be made.
+
 source "arch/mips/ddb5xxx/Kconfig"
 source "arch/mips/gt64120/ev64120/Kconfig"
 source "arch/mips/jazz/Kconfig"