kexec/LOBOS

kexec/LOBOS

[Rajeev Bector]

Can anybody point me to the latest patches for
this stufff (on 2.4.2 or later kernels ?). Any
pointers which have documentation etc
on this would be much appreciated ?
Is LOBOS deprecated now ? Is kexec the
way to go if you want to quickly reboot
another kernel image ?

Thanks !
Rajeev

Re: kexec/LOBOS

[Werner Almesberger]

Rajeev Bector wrote:
> Can anybody point me to the latest patches for
> this stufff (on 2.4.2 or later kernels ?). Any
> pointers which have documentation etc
> on this would be much appreciated ?

For bootimg, which does quite similar things, you may want to try
the patches by Mission Critical Linux, which include bootimg
http://oss.mclx.com/downloads/patches/
(up to 2.4.7, ia32 only)

You also need their version of bootimg(8) in mcore-user,
http://oss.mclx.com/projects/mcore/download.php

There is documentation on http://bootimg.sourceforge.net/

bootimg differs from kexec in that it tries to handle as much
policy as possible in user space, keeping the kernel part
comparably small.

- Werner

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