Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.

Michal Jaegermann (michal@harddata.com)
Wed, 6 Nov 2002 15:05:26 -0700


On Wed, Nov 06, 2002 at 12:48:36AM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
>
> Then I guess the reasonable thing to do is to modify sys_reboot to
> call machine_kexec instead of machine_restart when a kexec_image is
> present. Or should I add another magic number, and another case to
> sys_reboot?

Given that "bird-eye" description why not to make a "normal" restart
a particular case of kexec where you just have one kernel loaded
from an external storage? It does not seem to be that much
different although some issues are skipped or taken for granted. Or
I am talking nonsense?

Michal
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