From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262371AbTEBOe4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 10:34:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262928AbTEBOe4 (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 10:34:56 -0400 Received: from mailrelay1.lanl.gov ([128.165.4.101]:60074 "EHLO mailrelay1.lanl.gov") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262371AbTEBOez (ORCPT ); Fri, 2 May 2003 10:34:55 -0400 Subject: Re: 2.5.68-mm4 From: Steven Cole To: Andrew Morton Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org In-Reply-To: <20030502020149.1ec3e54f.akpm@digeo.com> References: <20030502020149.1ec3e54f.akpm@digeo.com> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Message-Id: <1051886748.2166.20.camel@spc9.esa.lanl.gov> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.4-1.1mdk Date: 02 May 2003 08:45:48 -0600 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2003-05-02 at 03:01, Andrew Morton wrote: > ftp://ftp.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/akpm/patches/2.5/2.5.68/2.5.68-mm4/ > > . Much reworking of the disk IO scheduler patches due to the updated > dynamic-disk-request-allocation patch. No real functional changes here. > > . Included the `kexec' patch - load Linux from Linux. Various people want > this for various reasons. I like the idea of going from a login prompt to > "Calibrating delay loop" in 0.5 seconds. > > I tried it on four machines and it worked with small glitches on three of > them, and wedged up the fourth. So if it is to proceed this code needs > help with testing and careful bug reporting please. > > There's a femto-HOWTO in the patch itself, reproduced here: > > > > - enable kexec in config, build, install. > > - grab kexec-tools from > > http://www.osdl.org/archive/andyp/kexec/2.5.68/ > The andyp directory seems to be missing. I found kexec-tools-1.8 here: http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/ Is that the latest version? Steven