From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752396Ab2KXVjM (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:39:12 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:42621 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752254Ab2KXVjL (ORCPT ); Sat, 24 Nov 2012 16:39:11 -0500 Message-ID: <50B13E53.4060003@zytor.com> Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2012 13:38:27 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:16.0) Gecko/20121029 Thunderbird/16.0.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Yinghai Lu CC: "Eric W. Biederman" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Rob Landley , Matt Fleming Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 11/12] x86, boot: add fields to support load bzImage and ramdisk high References: <1353482170-10160-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <1353482170-10160-12-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> <50AD0CA1.8000904@zytor.com> <50AD291A.10600@zytor.com> <50AE70E7.6060204@zytor.com> <87haofi3d3.fsf@xmission.com> <50B104BC.90208@zytor.com> <50B124E9.400@zytor.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/24/2012 01:30 PM, Yinghai Lu wrote: >> >> So, given the mess we now have on our hands... any suggestions how to best >> solve it? There is the option of simply declaring old kexec binaries >> broken; they will then not work reliably with newer kernels, if they even >> work reliably now -- it is hard to know for certain. > > yes, if the user updates kernel to be kexeced, then would be > reasonable to ask them to > update kexec-tools. > Careful... consider the people who use a kexec-based solution as bootloaders. -hpa -- H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.