[PATCH using git format-patch -C] kexec: add generic support for elf kernel images
Michael Ellerman
mpe at ellerman.id.au
Tue Jul 9 14:19:21 AEST 2019
Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at c-s.fr> writes:
> Hi Sven,
>
> Le 08/07/2019 à 12:06, Christophe Leroy a écrit :
>> From: Sven Schnelle <svens at stackframe.org>
>
> Please describe you patch.
>
> All the changes you are doing to the ppc64 version in order to make it
> generic should be described.
>
> Those changes are also maybe worth splitting the patch in several parts,
> either preparing the ppc64 for generic then moving to kernel/kexec_elf.c
> or moving to kernel/kexec_elf.c without modifications, then modifying it
> to make it generic.
>
> Note that your patch only applies on Linux 5.1, it doesn't apply on
> powerpc/next.
Don't worry about that. By the time it's merged powerpc/next will
probably have moved on, and if not I can deal with any conflicts.
Using master or powerpc/merge as a base is fine.
cheers
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