"Ming Lei" <mlei at Brocade.COM> writes: > Hi Eric, > > Do you know what's this purgatory directory for? I saw it is linked with > kexec in a weird way. Yep. That is the relocatable code that run between one kernel and the next. > Another note for current code base is that there is merged directory > arch/powerpc since linux kernel 2.6.23, but kexec-tools still has ppc > and ppc64 separated. Is there anyone working on this merged arch? Userspace should not be affected by a kernel implementation detail like that. Eric
