From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: geoff@infradead.org (Geoff Levand) Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2014 15:26:40 -0700 Subject: [PATCH 6/7] arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support In-Reply-To: <20141007202210.GA4236@redhat.com> References: <471af24b7de659a30a5941e793634bffec380cb9.1411604443.git.geoff@infradead.org> <20140930181840.GA24153@redhat.com> <1412106877.6630.45.camel@smoke> <20141001145602.GB13689@redhat.com> <1412361303.32313.24.camel@smoke> <20141007134450.GE27464@redhat.com> <1412707320.32313.100.camel@smoke> <20141007184520.GI27464@redhat.com> <1412712777.32313.130.camel@smoke> <20141007202210.GA4236@redhat.com> Message-ID: <1412893600.31184.1.camel@smoke> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi Vivek, On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 16:22 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Problem is this that if you put code in kernel once which does something > which purgatory ought to do, you will never be able to remove it for > backward compatibility reasons. Older versions of kexec-tools will > continue to rely on it. Also how in kernel you would know that now > purgatory will take care of this and kernel does not have to worry > about something. So it is a good idea to integrate the purgatory support > from the very beginning. I agree with you. I will add a purgatory. -Geoff