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Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] kexec_file_load implementation for PowerPC
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On Tue, 2016-06-14 at 11:59 -0300, Thiago Jung Bauermann wrote:

> Hello,
> 
> This patch series implements the kexec_file_load system call on PowerPC.

Can you tell me what this syscall does and why I would want it?

cheers