Re: kexec for 2.5.44 (Who do I send this to?)

Eric W. Biederman (ebiederm@xmission.com)
26 Oct 2002 07:54:41 -0600


Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> writes:

> Hi!
>
> > The kexec code has gone through a fairly decent review, and all known bugs
> > are resolved. There are still BIOS's that don't work after you have
> > run a kernel but that is an entirely different problem.
>
> Looks good... Few comments follow.

> Perhaps this should be done using driverfs callbacks?

SMP must be stopped and the APIC shutdown as the very last thing to happen.
The order dependency is a very real, and ugly things happen when it
doesn't happen as the very last thing. Does driverfs have a way to
express that?

Eric

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