From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([2001:1868:205::10] helo=mail.zytor.com) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.80.1 #2 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1Vu9Ng-0002jt-Vc for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 20 Dec 2013 23:21:21 +0000 Message-ID: <52B4D0C6.2000505@zytor.com> Date: Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:20:38 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file_load, for in kernel kexec References: <20131121190350.GC17070@kroah.com> <20131121190620.GA25951@srcf.ucam.org> <20131121191305.GK16208@redhat.com> <20131121191907.GA26366@srcf.ucam.org> <20131122185706.GK4046@redhat.com> <87vbzju6ql.fsf@xmission.com> <20131125163920.GC23094@redhat.com> <87fvqj2vxz.fsf@xmission.com> <20131126142759.GA5473@redhat.com> <20131219125439.GA6379@lst.de> <20131220141917.GB27063@redhat.com> <87a9fvqfs4.fsf@xmission.com> In-Reply-To: <87a9fvqfs4.fsf@xmission.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: "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal Cc: Matthew Garrett , Kees Cook , Greg KH , kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Peter Jones , Torsten Duwe On 12/20/2013 03:11 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > In that case the chrome folks would simply have to use an ELF format > kernel and not a bzImage. > This is starting to feel like everything is going in the direction of a massive feature regression. bzImage may be weird (it has definitely grown organically), but the features that have been added to it have generally been for a reason, e.g. kernel relocation and so on. -hpa _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec