* Who uses kexec preserve context logic
@ 2012-10-22 18:55 Vivek Goyal
2013-05-27 6:51 ` Zhang Yanfei
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From: Vivek Goyal @ 2012-10-22 18:55 UTC (permalink / raw)
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Hi,
I am just curious to know if somebody uses kexec preserve context path. I
have never used it personally and I don't know anybody who makes use of it.
Is it an unused code and should it be ripped out?
Thanks
Vivek
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* Re: Who uses kexec preserve context logic
2012-10-22 18:55 Who uses kexec preserve context logic Vivek Goyal
@ 2013-05-27 6:51 ` Zhang Yanfei
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From: Zhang Yanfei @ 2013-05-27 6:51 UTC (permalink / raw)
To: Vivek Goyal; +Cc: Kexec Mailing List, linux kernel mailing list, Huang Ying
On 10/23/2012 02:55 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Hi,
>
> I am just curious to know if somebody uses kexec preserve context path. I
> have never used it personally and I don't know anybody who makes use of it.
>
> Is it an unused code and should it be ripped out?
>
Hi Vivek,
Related commit is:
3ab83521378268044a448113c6aa9a9e245f4d2f kexec jump
From the commit, we can see its purpose is:
"The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in
physical mode (paging turning off). This can be used to call BIOS code under
Linux."
Maybe someone from Intel still uses this...
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