Re: kexec (was: Re: What's left over.)

[Benjamin LaHaise]

On Tue, Nov 05, 2002 at 02:29:43PM -0300, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> I view kexec as an "enabler", much like initrd, which had to be
> part of the kernel for a while before people started to figure out
> how to use it. (At this year's OLS, somebody told me they just
> "discovered" initrd and are now using it. Oh well, it's only been
> around for six years ;-)

kexec is also a great enabled for a non-intrusive kernel dump 
facility done correctly by booting into a new kernel image (which 
avoids the whole difficulty on x86 with BIOSes wiping out RAM at 
reboot).

		-ben