Re: 2.5.68-mm4

Steven Cole
2003-05-02T14:45:48Z

On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 03:01, Andrew Morton wrote:
> ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.68/2.5.68-mm4/
>
> . Much reworking of the disk IO scheduler patches due to the updated
> dynamic-disk-request-allocation patch. No real functional changes here.
>
> . Included the `kexec' patch - load Linux from Linux. Various people want
> this for various reasons. I like the idea of going from a login prompt to
> "Calibrating delay loop" in 0.5 seconds.
>
> I tried it on four machines and it worked with small glitches on three of
> them, and wedged up the fourth. So if it is to proceed this code needs
> help with testing and careful bug reporting please.
>
> There's a femto-HOWTO in the patch itself, reproduced here:
>
>
>
> - enable kexec in config, build, install.
>
> - grab kexec-tools from
>
> http://www.osdl.org/archive/andyp/kexec/2.5.68/
>
The andyp directory seems to be missing. I found kexec-tools-1.8 here:
http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/

Is that the latest version?

Steven