On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 01:40:33PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > On Thu, 2006-09-21 at 11:51 +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 11:59:04AM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote: > > > 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 :/ > > > > Surely if they are using a RHEL5 or SLES10 kernel then its > > reasonably to expect they are also using a RHEL5 or SLES10 supplied > > kexec-tool. > > Or Ubuntu Dapper .. Debian Stable .. FC whatever. In general they'll be > using the distro tools sure, but I'd rather not force them to. I > generally expect to be able to run mainline kernels without upgrading my > entire distro - it should cut both ways IMHO. >
Now with distros adopting kexce-tools, I am in for maintaining the backward compatibility as far as possible. Putting a note in the code is good that down the line, get rid of this code. -Vivek _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
