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From: Brian Smucker <bsmucker@anabaptists.org>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Kexec for ARM: Is it expected to load old kernels?
Date: Wed, 14 Apr 2010 10:01:29 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <4BC5F4E9.2000808@anabaptists.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4BC3339C.9040903@anabaptists.org>

Hello,

Is there someone who can answer these questions out there?

Perhaps you could give a name of someone who could help.

Thanks,

Brian

Brian Smucker wrote:
> Hi
>
> So it appears I cannot load pre-2.6.24 kernels ARM kernels.  I have 
> some further questions.
>
> Is this an ARM-only thing?
>
> If I want to load an arbitrary kernel, am I out of luck?
>
> I thought theoretically kexec was able to execute arbitrary elf 
> binaries, non-kernals, etc.  Is this true, or only my own misconception?
>
> Or is it true in general, but not for ARM?
>
> If it is not true for ARM, can I fix it?
>
> I would like kexec to be able to boot old,old kernels, of the 2.4.16 
> vintage.
>
> Can you help answer these questions?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Brian


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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-14 17:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-10  0:44 Kexec for ARM: Is it expected to load old kernels? Brian Smucker
2010-04-12 12:00 ` Andrea Adami
2010-04-12 14:52   ` Brian Smucker
2010-04-14 17:01     ` Brian Smucker [this message]
2010-04-22 13:35       ` Eric W. Biederman
2010-04-22 13:36       ` Eric W. Biederman

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