On 07/16/2013 12:31 PM, Kees Cook wrote: > > Could the first step be documenting the limitation? I've found this > patch extremely useful for my case already, and I imagine there might > be other people that need the early mmio stuff to. Generally the > compressed boot serial console stuff is going to be used in the more > common non-kexec situations at least for a while. > > Does this patch create any _problems_? Right now, neither low nor >4G > kernel can use an mmio serial port. :) This this, we'd at least gain > it for the low case. > Even documenting the limitation is likely to end up with a bunch of emails asking why their kernel crashed. I think setting up a dynamic #PF handler is the right thing for the decompressor, we already did for the kernel proper. -hpa -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
