linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 10/11] kexec: Support for loading ELF x86

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Message-ID: <20140312172458.GK14981@redhat.com>
Date:	Wed, 12 Mar 2014 13:24:58 -0400
From:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	hpa@...or.com, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, greg@...ah.com, jkosina@...e.cz
Subject: Re: [PATCH 10/11] kexec: Support for loading ELF x86_64 images

On Wed, Mar 12, 2014 at 05:19:19PM +0100, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 10, 2014 at 10:42:37AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > When I posted V1 of patches, Eric Biederman had said that without ELF
> > loader support this patchset should not go in. He said that ELF is
> > very generic and if we are implementing a new system call we should
> > support ELF loader.
> 
> But why, if nobody uses it?

Eric, can you please help answer this one.

Thanks
Vivek
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