[Fastboot] [PATCH] kexec: remove memory reserve patching for powerpc device tree

Michael Neuling mikey at neuling.org
Fri Sep 22 11:11:51 EST 2006


In message <20060921143253.GC1542 at in.ibm.com> you wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 21, 2006 at 09:18:39AM -0500, Jon Loeliger wrote:
> > So, like, the other day Vivek Goyal mumbled:
> > > 
> > > Now with distros adopting kexce-tools, I am in for maintaining the backwa
rd
> > > compatibility as far as possible. Putting a note in the code is good that
> > > down the line, get rid of this code.
> > 
> > Perhaps scheduling it as an entry in 
> > 
> >     Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
> > 
> > just so people (distros) can plan around it?
> 
> Perfect. In kexec-tools it can go in doc/feature-removal-schedule.txt.

It doesn't really need to go in the kernel source as the kernel has
already changed and besides, we were adding a feature to the kernel, not
removing one.  

At this stage, it's just a kexec tools feature removal.

Mikey



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