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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 11/15] bootwrapper: allow vmlinuz to be an external payload
Date: Wed, 11 Jul 2007 01:11:15 +0200
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> Allow the boot wrapper to obtain the vmlinux elf from an external
> platform supplied location instead of embedding it at link time.
>
> When used with the cpio library, the kernel can be stored as a file
> an file in the initramfs, allowing the same (compressed) copy of
> the vmlinux elf to be used for both the kernel to execute and any
> user space tools such as kexec (for reboot), crash dump, or oprofile.

Awesome!


Segher