Greg KH <gre...@linuxfoundation.org> writes: > On Tue, Jul 23, 2013 at 05:22:36PM -0700, Matt Wilson wrote: >> On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:33:15AM -0700, Greg KH wrote: >> > On Mon, Jul 22, 2013 at 11:24:46AM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> > > On 07/22/2013 10:20 AM, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> >> Many Xen-based cloud providers provide a mechanism for users to boot >> the kernels they want. For example you can use PV-GRUB on EC2 >> instances to boot a kernel that is stored within an AMI. >> >> For more info: >> http://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/UserProvidedkernels.html > > Yes, that's quite true, but some don't, or they make it difficult to do > so. Using kexec also allows you to "be the bootloader" and decide on > _which_ kernel you want to boot, independant of what cloud provider you > use, something that lots of people want in their quest to not dependant > on any one company.
I would be more than happy to review and help get something merged that sorts out kexec on Xen. Eric -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
