Re: Using Linux as a boot loader -- status and RFH
On Mon, Jan 31, 2011 at 04:18:30AM +0000, Luke Kenneth Casson Leighton wrote:
> in other words, you _can't_ just "run a random kernel", because when
> you start up a kernel "from scratch", the machine state is assumed to
> be from "cold boot". i.e. no ongoing DMA, no non-maskable interrupts,
> no watchdog timers, nothing.
But that is exactly what kexec() does, apparently successfully on
most platforms, just not (yet) on the kirkwood variant I'm using.
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Eric Cooper e c c @ c m u . e d u
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