Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86_64 kexec: Remove experimental mark of kexec
From: Piet Delaney <piet@bluelane.com>
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To: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Piet Delaney <piet@bluelane.com>, Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
       fastboot@osdl.org
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Date: Wed, 06 Sep 2006 23:20:27 -0700
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On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:15 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
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> > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 18:55, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >>=20
> >> kexec has been marked experimental for a year now and all
> >> of the serious problems have been worked through.  So it
> >> is time (if not past time) to remove the experimental mark.
> >>=20
> >
> > Hmm, I personally have some doubts it is really not experimental
> > (not because of the kexec code itself, but because of all the other dri=
vers
> > that still break)
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> That is a reasonable viewpoint.  Although by that a lot more of the kerne=
l
> deserves to be marked experimental.=20
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> On the perverse side of the sentiment taking off experimental may increas=
e
> our number of testers and get the bugs fixed faster :)

I take it that for using kexec to boot a kdump kernel and then
rebooting the primary kernel that there are a few drivers in
the dumping kernel that wouldn't work but they aren't likely
to be used. Ie: it's "just" a hardware initialization issue
on kernels booted with kexec.

-piet

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> > But applied for now.
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> Thanks.
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> Eric
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