Messages in this thread | | | From | Gerrit Huizenga <> | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API | Date | Fri, 30 Jul 2004 05:38:13 -0700 |
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On 29 Jul 2004 18:04:06 MDT, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Gerrit Huizenga <gh@us.ibm.com> writes: > > > > Okay, I may be confused a bit but I *thought* kexec was going to > > load the thin, new kernel (e.g. read from disk operations, which is > > better than write to disk operations from the sick kernel). > > /sbin/kexec will load it with sys_kexec_load, before the kernel becomes > sick. >
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> > That sounds simpler than changing the kernel load process around, > > ensuring you have the new kexec'd kernel build and loaded, etc. > > At least it sounds simpler and more in line with using kexec for > > fastboot as well. > > The only process that is going to be changed around is where > we store the kernel before we transfer control to it, and when/and > how that transfer of control happens.
This is what I had missed - the seperation of load and exec.
Thanks, Eric!
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