From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com>,
sharada@in.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org, anton@samba.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miltonm@bga.com,
fastboot@lists.osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: kexec support for ppc64
Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 12:36:31 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <17020.10671.866725.569831@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050506173211.0bc2db7e.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton writes:
> But you didn't address the question of whether the kexec feature is
> sufficiently useful in its own right to justify merging.
On POWER4 boxes running in SMP (non-partitioned) mode it would be
extremely useful, because the firmware takes such an age to boot the
machine.
Paul.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-05-07 2:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-05-06 6:28 [PATCH] ppc64: global interrupt queue cleanup Paul Mackerras
2005-05-06 12:41 ` [PATCH] ppc64: native hash clear R Sharada
2005-05-06 12:44 ` [PATCH] ppc64: kexec support for ppc64 R Sharada
2005-05-06 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-06 23:40 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2005-05-07 0:32 ` Andrew Morton
2005-05-07 2:02 ` Gerrit Huizenga
2005-05-07 2:36 ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2005-05-07 8:40 ` [Fastboot] " Dipankar Sarma
2005-05-07 16:49 ` Suparna Bhattacharya
2005-05-09 11:55 ` Maneesh Soni
2005-05-09 12:05 ` R Sharada
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