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From: Rod Whitby <rod@whitby.id.au>
To: Richard Purdie <rpurdie@rpsys.net>
Cc: openembedded-devel <openembedded-devel@openembedded.org>
Subject: Re: Impending Kexec interface change
Date: Wed, 21 Feb 2007 10:12:38 +1030	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <45DB876E.4090806@whitby.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1172010661.5884.113.camel@localhost.localdomain>

Richard Purdie wrote:
> Anyone watching mainline kernels will note that ARM kexec support got
> merged and will be in 2.6.21 which is good. The issue is that the
> syscall number had to change since the one its using at the moment is a
> big hack.
> 
> This means we will have to change kexec-tools and at that point it
> becomes incompatible with older kernels.
> 
> We can wait a bit and change when 2.6.21 is released, or update all our
> patches now to use the new proper syscall number and update OE now.
> 
> I know the NSLU2 people are users of this and would value their input.

I say we change ASAP.  We'll upgrade the ixp4xx kernel in sync with your
changes.

-- Rdo



      parent reply	other threads:[~2007-02-20 23:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-02-20 22:31 Impending Kexec interface change Richard Purdie
2007-02-20 22:36 ` Justin Patrin
2007-02-21  0:39   ` Richard Purdie
2007-02-20 23:42 ` Rod Whitby [this message]

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