[PATCH 6/7] arm64/kexec: Add core kexec support
Geoff Levand
geoff at infradead.org
Thu Oct 9 15:26:40 PDT 2014
Hi Vivek,
On Tue, 2014-10-07 at 16:22 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Problem is this that if you put code in kernel once which does something
> which purgatory ought to do, you will never be able to remove it for
> backward compatibility reasons. Older versions of kexec-tools will
> continue to rely on it. Also how in kernel you would know that now
> purgatory will take care of this and kernel does not have to worry
> about something. So it is a good idea to integrate the purgatory support
> from the very beginning.
I agree with you. I will add a purgatory.
-Geoff
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