Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> writes: > Hi, > > After all the excitement of relocating kexec-tools from > one location on kernel.org to another last week it was > suggested to me by Michael Neuling that the merging > kexec-tools into the kernel tree would be a good idea. > > Given that there have been a bunch of issues with kexec > on power that this would resolve. and there is precedence > for tools in the kernel tree, this sounds entirely reasonable to me. > So with my kexec-tools maintainer hat on, I would like to start > a conversation about this. What are the issues with kexec on power? Did someone fail to maintain ABI compatibility? The interface isn't even supposed to be linux specific, so I can't imagine what would motivate moving this into the kernel tree. I'm afraid that someone has a good answer for why their lives would be simpler if /sbin/kexec was in the kernel tree and I will be absolutely horrified and about someones stupidity when I hear that answer. Eric
