From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from mx0a-001b2d01.pphosted.com (mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com [148.163.158.5]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by lists.ozlabs.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 3s3GHM0nk5zDqWP for ; Tue, 2 Aug 2016 09:48:14 +1000 (AEST) Received: from pps.filterd (m0098416.ppops.net [127.0.0.1]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com (8.16.0.11/8.16.0.11) with SMTP id u71NiRSx085588 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 19:48:12 -0400 Received: from e24smtp02.br.ibm.com (e24smtp02.br.ibm.com [32.104.18.86]) by mx0b-001b2d01.pphosted.com with ESMTP id 24gnv18h0v-1 (version=TLSv1.2 cipher=AES256-SHA bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Mon, 01 Aug 2016 19:48:11 -0400 Received: from localhost by e24smtp02.br.ibm.com with IBM ESMTP SMTP Gateway: Authorized Use Only! Violators will be prosecuted for from ; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:48:10 -0300 Received: from d24relay03.br.ibm.com (d24relay03.br.ibm.com [9.13.184.25]) by d24dlp02.br.ibm.com (Postfix) with ESMTP id 6BF3F1DC0051 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 19:47:58 -0400 (EDT) Received: from d24av03.br.ibm.com (d24av03.br.ibm.com [9.8.31.95]) by d24relay03.br.ibm.com (8.14.9/8.14.9/NCO v10.0) with ESMTP id u71Nm60l10224104 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:48:06 -0300 Received: from d24av03.br.ibm.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by d24av03.br.ibm.com (8.14.4/8.14.4/NCO v10.0 AVout) with ESMTP id u71Nm6V3000322 for ; Mon, 1 Aug 2016 20:48:06 -0300 From: Thiago Jung Bauermann To: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org Cc: kexec@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 0/9] kexec_file_load implementation for PowerPC Date: Mon, 01 Aug 2016 20:48:05 -0300 In-Reply-To: <1467908615-18952-1-git-send-email-bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> References: <1467908615-18952-1-git-send-email-bauerman@linux.vnet.ibm.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Message-Id: <1610701.WIqt6fioh4@hactar> List-Id: Linux on PowerPC Developers Mail List List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Hello, Am Donnerstag, 07 Juli 2016, 13:23:26 schrieb Thiago Jung Bauermann: > Note: We are currently discussing whether we need a new syscall so that > userspace can provide a custom device tree for the new kernel. Even if > that ends up being the way forward, it would affect only patches 7 and 8, > and even in those patches a significant part of the code would stay > the same. Therefore, it's still important for me to get feedback on > this series. The discussion about how to pass device tree nodes/properties via kexec_file_load seems a bit stuck at the moment. Since I'm targeting kernel 4.9 for this patch series, and considering that this code is functional and useful as it is, I'd like to keep the process of upstreaming it in motion. Ping? -- []'s Thiago Jung Bauermann IBM Linux Technology Center