linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file

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Date:	Fri, 20 Dec 2013 15:20:38 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
CC:	Torsten Duwe <duwe@....de>, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Greg KH <greg@...ah.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, Peter Jones <pjones@...hat.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] kexec: A new system call, kexec_file_load, for in
 kernel kexec

On 12/20/2013 03:11 PM, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> In that case the chrome folks would simply have to use an ELF format
> kernel and not a bzImage.
> 

This is starting to feel like everything is going in the direction of a
massive feature regression.  bzImage may be weird (it has definitely
grown organically), but the features that have been added to it have
generally been for a reason, e.g. kernel relocation and so on.

	-hpa


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