On 10/23/2012 02:55 AM, Vivek Goyal wrote: > Hi, > > I am just curious to know if somebody uses kexec preserve context path. I > have never used it personally and I don't know anybody who makes use of it. > > Is it an unused code and should it be ripped out? > Hi Vivek, Related commit is: 3ab83521378268044a448113c6aa9a9e245f4d2f kexec jump >From the commit, we can see its purpose is: "The features of this patch can be used as a general method to call program in physical mode (paging turning off). This can be used to call BIOS code under Linux." Maybe someone from Intel still uses this...
