[PATCH 4/6] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file_load, for in kernel kexec

H. Peter Anvin hpa at zytor.com
Fri Dec 20 18:20:38 EST 2013


On 12/20/2013 03:11 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> In that case the chrome folks would simply have to use an ELF format
> kernel and not a bzImage.
> 

This is starting to feel like everything is going in the direction of a
massive feature regression.  bzImage may be weird (it has definitely
grown organically), but the features that have been added to it have
generally been for a reason, e.g. kernel relocation and so on.

	-hpa





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