Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:59:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:59:25 -0500 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:10857 "EHLO frodo.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 20 Nov 2001 08:59:17 -0500 To: RaXl NXXez de Arenas Coronado Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: LOBOS (kexec) In-Reply-To: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 20 Nov 2001 06:40:19 -0700 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 36 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org RaXl NXXez de Arenas Coronado writes: > Hello Larry (or Eric) :) > > >> I've been wanting Linux which can boot Linux for a long time. > >I am maintaining a version of this functionality against 2.4.x > >called kexec. And I plan to work on integration into linux with 2.5.x. > >After the details are worked out I will look at a backport to 2.4.x > > I think that this is a very important point, since will ease the > making of installation disks, etc... Moreover, it will ease the > creation of 'live' linux systems that can do a pretty work detecting > the hardware and the like. Yep it allows linux to sever a lot of very interesting roles. Linux doesn't act especially well as firmware (it is fairly big). But otherwise it does a good job. > >The hard part is not linux booting linux but the passing of the > >firmware/BIOS tables from one kernel to the next. > > Why?. I mean, I haven't read on this issue in the LOBOS project. > I'm afraid I thought that this was easier than it really is... The difficulty isn't in implementation but in freezing the API. Which is needed if you want a solid long term approach. > > >I am doing this a part of the linuxBIOS effort and as such it is just > > I want to take a look at LinuxBIOS. The documentation is sketchy but you can look at: http://www.linuxbios.org and ask questions on the mailing list. Eric - 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/