linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] kexec_file_load implementation for PowerPC

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Message-ID: <1466056110.5400.8.camel@ellerman.id.au>
Date:	Thu, 16 Jun 2016 15:48:30 +1000
From:	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
To:	Thiago Jung Bauermann <bauerman@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:	kexec@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/9] kexec_file_load implementation for PowerPC

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