Re: [PATCH 4/6] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file_load, for inkernel kexec

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Dec 20 2013 - 18:21:35 EST


On 12/20/2013 03:11 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> In that case the chrome folks would simply have to use an ELF format
> kernel and not a bzImage.
>

This is starting to feel like everything is going in the direction of a
massive feature regression. bzImage may be weird (it has definitely
grown organically), but the features that have been added to it have
generally been for a reason, e.g. kernel relocation and so on.

-hpa


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