Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261522AbVEGCgO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 22:36:14 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261524AbVEGCgO (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 22:36:14 -0400 Received: from ozlabs.org ([203.10.76.45]:17336 "EHLO ozlabs.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261522AbVEGCgM (ORCPT ); Fri, 6 May 2005 22:36:12 -0400 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-ID: <17020.10671.866725.569831@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Date: Sat, 7 May 2005 12:36:31 +1000 From: Paul Mackerras To: Andrew Morton Cc: Gerrit Huizenga , sharada@in.ibm.com, torvalds@osdl.org, anton@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, miltonm@bga.com, fastboot@lists.osdl.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] ppc64: kexec support for ppc64 In-Reply-To: <20050506173211.0bc2db7e.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050506160546.388aeed4.akpm@osdl.org> <20050506173211.0bc2db7e.akpm@osdl.org> X-Mailer: VM 7.19 under Emacs 21.4.1 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 548 Lines: 15 Andrew Morton writes: > But you didn't address the question of whether the kexec feature is > sufficiently useful in its own right to justify merging. On POWER4 boxes running in SMP (non-partitioned) mode it would be extremely useful, because the firmware takes such an age to boot the machine. Paul. - 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/