On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:10 +1000, Michael Neuling wrote:
> This code no longer needed with Jimi's auto reserve of device tree blob
> kernel patch now in 2.6.18.    
> 
> This patch will break Linux if you're kexecing to a kernel which doesn't
> have this patch (ie. earlier than 2.6.17).  Required kernel patch is
> this one:   
> http://git.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux-2.6.git;a=commit;h=4d1f3f25d9c303d1ce63b42cc94c54ac0ab2e950
> 

Although it'd be nice to get rid of that code, I'm not sure we want to
go breaking this. This will mean RHEL5 and SLES10 users can't use
upstream kexec-tools :/

cheers

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