Re: [PATCH v2 01/12] kexec: Allow architecture code to opt-out at runtime

Joerg Roedel
2021-11-02T16:37:18Z

On Mon, Nov 01, 2021 at 04:11:42PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> I seem to remember the consensus when this was reviewed that it was
> unnecessary and there is already support for doing something like
> this at a more fine grained level so we don't need a new kexec hook.

It was a discussion, no consenus :)

I still think it is better to solve this in generic code for everybody
to re-use than with an hack in the architecture hooks.

More and more platforms which enable confidential computing features
may need this hook in the future.

Regards,

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