Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> Ah i didn't realize this. Ok then kexec is also quite broken.
> Somehow this must have been missed this fundamental flaw when this code was
> reviewed.
>
It wasn't missed. It was given the "there is no other way" defence, and
somehow that was considered sufficient.
Now, one could argue that kexec can just pass the boot_params from the
previous kernel boot, except there is no way to read them out, and so
it's not how it actually works.
-hpa
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