On 3/7/07, Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Wed, Mar 07, 2007 at 06:47:34PM -0500, Satish P wrote: > > Hi All, > > I am looking to use kexec feature on my Linux box. Where can I get the > > latest kexec patch and kexec-tools. > > And if if I can find one compatible with 2.6.9 kernel, I would be more > > happy. > > If you really need a patch for 2.6.9, then that is a pretty tall order. > Kexec is now being maintained in the main kernel tree. > > My recommendation is that 2.6.21rc3 is a farily good release for kexec, > and if you aren't worried about ia64 then 2.6.20 is probably good too. > If you really need something against 2.6.9, then I guess you will have > to try to pull the patches out of git, but that is going to be > really hard work given that 2.6.9 is quite old now. > > For kexec, there is a kexec-tools-testing branch that has the latest and > greatest. Its releases can be found at: > > http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/ > > The kexec-tools-testing tee is maintained in git, and I encourage > people to check out and test this tree. (I sould probably make a new > release soon :) > > git clone http://git.kernel.org/linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git > or > http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git > > > -- > Horms > H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ > W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ > >
That is very useful information. Thank you! If I understand correctly, you are saying that kexec feature now comes with 2.6.20.1 kernel. So, if I can download the sources for 2.6.20.1 onto my Linux box and build the kernel and load it, I should be all set? Regards Satish. _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
