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From:   Yixun Lan <yixun.lan@gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 5 Jul 2022 14:12:58 +0000
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Subject: Re: RISC-V: patched kexec-tools on github for review/testing
To:     Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr>
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HI Nick

On Tue, Jul 5, 2022 at 12:24 PM Nick Kossifidis <mick@ics.forth.gr> wrote:
>
> Hello Yixun,
>
> On 7/2/22 14:35, Yixun Lan wrote:
> > hi Nick
> >
> > ping, any update for this? any new patch for kexec-tools?
> >
> > I'd also like to try kexec on unmatched board, and encounter the same error
> > as Alexandre Ghiti reported, generally I'm using almost same cmdline
> >
> > Yixun Lan
>
> The kernel-side patches have already been merged upstream, for
> kexec-tools there are some people working on fixes, I'm expecting pull
> requests on the github before I do a pull request upstream. You should
> be able to use kexec without initrd.
>
> Regards,
> Nick

Thanks for the reply and updated information
I was looking forward to use "--initrd" in order to boot a complicated OS,

Anyway, I will try kexec without initrd, and please keep me posted
when there is PR

Regards

Yixun Lan