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Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [announce] kexec for linux 2.6.6
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From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
Date: 13 May 2004 00:39:05 -0600
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Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:

> ebiederm@xmission.com (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?

I know of a few products kexec is embedded in already.  As for the
general purpose distro's I don't know.

Eric