Date: Thu, 20 Jan 2005 16:51:50 -0300
From: Werner Almesberger <wa@almesberger.net>
To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, fastboot@lists.osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Re: [PATCH 0/29] overview
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Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> To some extent.  It is worth noting that the first 13 of my patches
> are not core functionality they are bug fixes or feature enhancements
> of code that simply have come to be associated with the work on kexec.

Good point. I didn't even think of the low-level parts of the boot
process. I'm more worried about the high-level side. Since GRUB,
not much seems to have happened. I think we should have a much
richer boot environment by now.

We're still not even at the level of functionality typically found
in the boot PROMs of classical Unix workstations, whereas I think
we should have been running circles around them for years already.

So if there was a vote to be cast for getting kexec into mainline
as quickly as possible, you'd certainly have mine :-)

- Werner

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