On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:18:46PM -0700, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> 
> > On Tue, Nov 14, 2006 at 10:37:45AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> >> From: Heiko Carstens <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> >> 
> >> Set KEXEC_ARCH_S390 in order to make sure that kexec works also in compat
> >> mode on s390.
> >
> > That seems fine to me, but could you explain a little more about it?
> 
> If you call sys_kexec_load in compat mode, you are required to pass
> the architecture your kernel is actually running.  The kexec kernel
> code only supports one switching to one mode.  So a 32bit user space
> must be prepared to accept a 64bit handoff.  The flag reports
> that you can do that.

Thanks.

I have applied this patch to kexec-tools-testing

-- 
Horms
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