On Mon, Feb 24, 2014 at 11:41:31AM -0500, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> Right now there is only one user. But once other image loader support
> comes along or other arches support file based kexec, they can make
> use of same function.
>
> This is a pretty important modification as it decides what's the starting
> point of next kernel image. I wanted to make it a function callable by
> users who wanted to modify it instead of of letting them directly
> modify image->start.
But are you expecting any other way to set image->start by the other
arches/image loaders?
> Could be. I am trying to reuse exisitng code. In current code, user space
> passes a list of segments and then kernel calls this function to make sure
> all the segments passed in make sense.
>
> Here also arch dependent part of kernel is preparing a list of segments
> wanted and then generic code is reusing the existing function to make
> sure segment list is sane. I like code reuse part of it.
Right, ok, this was just an idea. Maybe not worth it.
Thanks.
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