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

Lombard, David N dnlombar at ichips.intel.com
Wed Dec 19 09:38:22 EST 2007


On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 06:25:58PM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 18, 2007 at 05:47:55PM +0900, Jeremy Kerr wrote:
> 
> > 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.
> 
> I think x86 it already happens. I think I can launch 64bit kernel from
> a 32bit kexec.

You certainly can...

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