>>> On 02.01.13 at 12:26, Andrew Cooper <andrew.cooper3 at citrix.com> wrote: > On 27/12/12 18:02, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> It probably make sense to split them apart a little even. > > Thinking about this split, there might be a way to simply it even more. > > /sbin/kexec can load the "Xen" crash kernel itself by issuing hypercalls > using /dev/xen/privcmd. This would remove the need for the dom0 kernel > to distinguish between loading a crash kernel for itself and loading a > kernel for Xen. > > Or is this just a silly idea complicating the matter? I don't think so (and suggested that before as a response to an earlier submission of this patch set), and it would make most of the discussion here mute. Jan
