From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from out01.mta.xmission.com ([166.70.13.231]) by bombadil.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1LWl9M-0007LK-85 for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Tue, 10 Feb 2009 05:27:14 +0000 References: <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E027534BA@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E027DFC66@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E027E0B15@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Mon, 09 Feb 2009 21:27:12 -0800 In-Reply-To: <4C94DE2070B172459E4F1EE14BD2364E027E0B15@HQ-EXCH-5.corp.brocade.com> (Ming Lei's message of "Mon\, 9 Feb 2009 17\:08\:36 -0800") Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Subject: Re: should kernel image destination address be picked up by kernel itself? 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-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Ming Lei Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org "Ming Lei" 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 _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec