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

[Horms]

On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 10:41:51AM +0930, Michael Neuling wrote:
> 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.

If someone wants to make a patch for kexec-tools I'm happy
to put it into kexec-tools-testing. Though I am a little dubious
about the possibilities of vendors taking any notice of it.

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