Re: [Fastboot] Re: [announce] kexec for linux 2.6.6

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu May 13 2004 - 01:24:23 EST


ebiederm@xxxxxxxxxxxx (Eric W. Biederman) wrote:
>
> So if kexec could actually get a reserved system call number that
> would be the best solution I have seen in this thread.

I have no problem with that - it's a major feature, vendors will, I assume,
ship it so it's worth blowing the four bytes to pin the ABI down for
everyone.

> Andrew how close are we to a point where we can look at kexec inclusion?

Well it's not exactly head-of-queue. Do any vendors actually intend to
ship it?

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