From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([2a01:4f8:120:8448::d00d]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1WNlsh-0001E0-Bd for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Wed, 12 Mar 2014 16:19:48 +0000 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:19:19 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] kexec: Support for loading ELF x86_64 images Message-ID: <20140312161919.GE23890@pd.tnic> References: <1390849071-21989-1-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <1390849071-21989-11-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <20140228145832.GF4326@pd.tnic> <20140228171142.GI28744@redhat.com> <20140307171233.GD5255@pd.tnic> <20140307183959.GE5255@pd.tnic> <20140310144237.GA4352@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140310144237.GA4352@redhat.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: "kexec" Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=twosheds.infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Vivek Goyal Cc: mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, jkosina@suse.cz, greg@kroah.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:42:37AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > When I posted V1 of patches, Eric Biederman had said that without ELF > loader support this patchset should not go in. He said that ELF is > very generic and if we are implementing a new system call we should > support ELF loader. But why, if nobody uses it? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. -- _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755440AbaCLQT2 (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:19:28 -0400 Received: from mail.skyhub.de ([78.46.96.112]:37253 "EHLO mail.skyhub.de" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754548AbaCLQTY (ORCPT ); Wed, 12 Mar 2014 12:19:24 -0400 Date: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 17:19:19 +0100 From: Borislav Petkov To: Vivek Goyal Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kexec@lists.infradead.org, ebiederm@xmission.com, hpa@zytor.com, mjg59@srcf.ucam.org, greg@kroah.com, jkosina@suse.cz Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] kexec: Support for loading ELF x86_64 images Message-ID: <20140312161919.GE23890@pd.tnic> References: <1390849071-21989-1-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <1390849071-21989-11-git-send-email-vgoyal@redhat.com> <20140228145832.GF4326@pd.tnic> <20140228171142.GI28744@redhat.com> <20140307171233.GD5255@pd.tnic> <20140307183959.GE5255@pd.tnic> <20140310144237.GA4352@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20140310144237.GA4352@redhat.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:42:37AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > When I posted V1 of patches, Eric Biederman had said that without ELF > loader support this patchset should not go in. He said that ELF is > very generic and if we are implementing a new system call we should > support ELF loader. But why, if nobody uses it? -- Regards/Gruss, Boris. Sent from a fat crate under my desk. Formatting is fine. --