On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:29:43PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> I view kexec as an "enabler", much like initrd, which had to be
> part of the kernel for a while before people started to figure out
> how to use it. (At this year's OLS, somebody told me they just
> "discovered" initrd and are now using it. Oh well, it's only been
> around for six years ;-)
kexec is also a great enabled for a non-intrusive kernel dump
facility done correctly by booting into a new kernel image (which
avoids the whole difficulty on x86 with BIOSes wiping out RAM at
reboot).
-ben
-
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
This archive was generated by hypermail 2b29 : Thu Nov 07 2002 - 22:00:39 EST