[LinuxBIOS] Kexec support?

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
Would anyone care to comment on the status of Kexec functions within the
kernel or for that matter support within Linux as a whole?

I managed to resurrect the entire tree of my work from much earlier, and
came across from 2003 of all things a directory of my work then with regards
to Kexec. It happens that at the time I wasn't running on a P3 family member
and realized that the stored stuff was indeed based on that former machine's
profile.

I was reminded of the whole business by the earlier discussion concerning
yet another boot loader for inclusion within LinuxBIOS.

[ron minnich]

kexec is out there in the kernel and people use it.

You don't need your own version any more.

ron

[Gregg C Levine]

Hello!
Yes it is. It turns out that my development system was running a generic
2.6.18 kernel and naturally it (the Kexec function) wasn't turned on. So I
ran the make xconfig functions and built in containing that function plus a
few others. And it booted back up without the usual issues.

I also found a fairly recent snapshot of the tools for what Eric's Kexec
function evolved into. My next steps will be to work with it that way.

I will be presenting more on this later. Oh and thank you Ron for bringing
this to my attention.
--
Gregg C Levine [e-mail]
"The Force will be with you. Always." Obi-Wan Kenobi
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> kexec is out there in the kernel and people use it.
>
> You don't need your own version any more.
>
> ron