[KEXEC][ANNOUNCE] kexec for 2.5.73 available

[Andy Pfiffer]

A patch set for kexec for 2.5.73 is now available. This patch set is
based upon the stable 2.5.{67,68,69,70,71,72} versions.

This patch was tested to work on a dual P4-1.7GHz Xeon system, a
uniprocessor P3-800 system, and a dual P3-866 system. I continue to
observe strangeness with the re-initialization of the VESA framebuffer
(character-based console TTY worked correctly), a kernel oops in the
2.5.72 version on a 4-way while preparing the reboot memory buffer, and
a hang seen when using the serial console (RS232). 

More info here:
http://www.osdl.org/archive/andyp/bloom/Code/Linux/Kexec/index.html

Unified full kexec patch for 2.5.73 is here:
http://www.osdl.org/archive/andyp/kexec/2.5.73/kexec2-2.5.73-full.patch

Source tarball of the matching user-mode utility for kexec 2.5.73:
http://www.osdl.org/archive/andyp/kexec/2.5.73/kexec-tools-1.8-2.5.73.tgz

Unstable 2.5.69 kexec patches from Eric Biederman are available here:
http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/

Regards,
Andy