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From: Luca Falavigna <dktrkranz@gmail.com>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: rddunlap@osdl.org, fastboot@osdl.org,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: kexec and frame buffer
Date: Sun, 07 Aug 2005 15:19:07 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <42F6266B.8000704@gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m13bpnyppq.fsf@ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com>

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Eric W. Biederman ha scritto:
> Anyway I believe you also want to look at include/linux/tty.h
> at the screen_info structure.  I believe that is where
> all of that information is passed.
I noticed. Maybe if we fill struct x86_linux_param_header with some values
obtained from struct screen_info, we should be able to "score that mid-court
prayer" ;)

>>I tried to pass --real-mode flag to kexec but my virtual machine doesn't like
>>it. When I launch kexec -e, it tells me: "A strange behaviour occourred which
>>crashed virtual machine".
>
>
> Cool.  I haven't used that code in a long time but it is pretty
> trivial code to switches to real mode so I don't really doubt it :)
Added to my list-of-things-to-do-after-holydays :)

Regards,
- --
					Luca
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  reply	other threads:[~2005-08-07 23:47 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2005-08-04 13:35 kexec and frame buffer Luca Falavigna
2005-08-04 18:43 ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-06 14:19   ` Luca Falavigna
2005-08-06 16:50     ` Eric W. Biederman
2005-08-07 15:19       ` Luca Falavigna [this message]
2005-08-12 18:53         ` Luca Falavigna
2005-08-12 17:10           ` Eric W. Biederman

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