Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:17:27 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:17:27 -0500 Received: from e35.co.us.ibm.com ([32.97.110.133]:31170 "EHLO e35.co.us.ibm.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 19 Nov 2002 13:17:25 -0500 Date: Tue, 19 Nov 2002 10:17:48 -0800 From: "Martin J. Bligh" To: "Eric W. Biederman" , Andy Pfiffer cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linus Torvalds , Alan Cox , Werner Almesberger , Suparna Bhattacharya , "Matt D. Robinson" , Rusty Russell , Mike Galbraith , Dave Hansen Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE][CFT] kexec for v2.5.48 && kexec-tools-1.7 -- Success Story! Message-ID: <4090000.1037729868@flay> In-Reply-To: References: <1037055149.13304.47.camel@andyp> <1037148514.13280.97.camel@andyp><1037668241.10400.48.camel@andyp> <1037726468.10400.81.camel@andyp> X-Mailer: Mulberry/2.1.2 (Linux/x86) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 879 Lines: 20 >> Just to make sure I understand the problem. Until we can make all >> boot-time BIOS calls work, we need a way to: > > A small clarification. BIOS calls will never work 100%. Especially in the > interesting cases like kexec on panic. So entering the kernel in > 32bit mode will continue to be the default mode of. This means the > final solution to problems like this needs to be a good one. Do we still have the mpstables and other such initdata around as well? Or did we destroy those on boot? If we're going to do kexec on panic, perhaps all these should be checksummed for corruption detection eventually (not now). M. - 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/