Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec firmware support

2013-01-04 Thread Daniel Kiper
On Thu, Dec 27, 2012 at 07:06:13PM -0800, ebied...@xmission.com wrote: Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com writes: Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com writes: Some kexec/kdump implementations (e.g. Xen PVOPS) could not use default Linux infrastructure and require some support from

Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec firmware support

2012-12-27 Thread Daniel Kiper
Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com writes: Some kexec/kdump implementations (e.g. Xen PVOPS) could not use default Linux infrastructure and require some support from firmware and/or hypervisor. To cope with that problem kexec firmware infrastructure was introduced. It allows a

Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec firmware support

2012-12-27 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com writes: Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com writes: Some kexec/kdump implementations (e.g. Xen PVOPS) could not use default Linux infrastructure and require some support from firmware and/or hypervisor. To cope with that problem kexec firmware

[PATCH v3 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec firmware support

2012-12-26 Thread Daniel Kiper
Some kexec/kdump implementations (e.g. Xen PVOPS) could not use default Linux infrastructure and require some support from firmware and/or hypervisor. To cope with that problem kexec firmware infrastructure was introduced. It allows a developer to use all kexec/kdump features of given firmware or

Re: [PATCH v3 01/11] kexec: introduce kexec firmware support

2012-12-26 Thread Eric W. Biederman
Daniel Kiper daniel.ki...@oracle.com writes: Some kexec/kdump implementations (e.g. Xen PVOPS) could not use default Linux infrastructure and require some support from firmware and/or hypervisor. To cope with that problem kexec firmware infrastructure was introduced. It allows a developer to