[PATCH 0/8] kexec build system updates, to allow cross-kexec()ing

[Simon Horman]

On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:47:55PM +0900, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> Hi all,
> 
> This series of patches is aimed at simplifying the kexec build system,
> mainly in order to make cross-compilation much easier.
> 
> As well as cross-compiling, this makes it possible to separate the
> 'host' architecture (ie, the arch of the kexec binary built), and the
> 'target' architecture (ie, the arch of the kernel that we're kexecing).
> We can specify these with the standard --host and --target arguments
> to configure.
> 
> This allows us to kexec a powerpc64 kernel from a powerpc userspace.
> x86{,_64} users might find this handy too, but I don't have hardware
> to test.
> 
> Any comments are most welcome - if you're able to test on your
> arch, that would be great too.

Thanks Jeremy,

I've run these patches through the build for all supported architectures
and they seem clean to me. So I have gone ahead and applied them. If
anyone notices any breakage please let Jeremy and/or myself know.

-- 
Horms