From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Ming Lei <mlei@Brocade.COM>
Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: should kernel image destination address be picked up by kernel itself?
Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:27:12 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m14oz22767.fsf@fess.ebiederm.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E027E0B15@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> (Ming Lei's message of "Mon\, 9 Feb 2009 17\:08\:36 -0800")
"Ming Lei" <mlei@Brocade.COM> writes:
> Hi Eric,
>
> Do you know what's this purgatory directory for? I saw it is linked with
> kexec in a weird way.
Yep. That is the relocatable code that run between one kernel and the next.
> Another note for current code base is that there is merged directory
> arch/powerpc since linux kernel 2.6.23, but kexec-tools still has ppc
> and ppc64 separated. Is there anyone working on this merged arch?
Userspace should not be affected by a kernel implementation detail
like that.
Eric
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-02-10 5:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-01-27 22:22 should kernel image destination address be picked up by kernel itself? Ming Lei
2009-02-03 19:52 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-03 20:06 ` Ming Lei
2009-02-03 21:42 ` Eric W. Biederman
2009-02-10 1:08 ` Ming Lei
2009-02-10 5:27 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2009-02-10 21:34 ` Ming Lei
2009-04-16 18:48 ` Ming Lei
2009-04-20 21:19 ` Eric W. Biederman
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