**** BEGIN LOGGING AT Wed Feb 21 02:59:57 2007 Feb 21 07:59:31 hi Feb 21 13:34:46 NAiL: is this whole kexec thing going to replace the initrd or? I'm not sure what the pros are... Feb 21 14:09:42 no Feb 21 14:38:01 NAiL: so it's only good for speeding up reboots? Feb 21 14:38:50 well, it was the plan to use it on boot originally Feb 21 14:38:53 but it's been dropped Feb 21 14:39:12 so kexec is now in the kernel if anyone wants to use it, I guess Feb 21 15:23:22 good to have. Feb 21 17:58:10 Hi NAiL, Hi VoodooZ, i played with kexec a few weeks ago and succesfully boot 2.6.19 via kexec completely from external stick. But there is not cmdline support on ARM and booting a 2.6.20 from a few days ago fails. Feb 21 18:14:07 have you tried with the latest kexec stuff? Feb 21 18:14:11 it was updated yesterday Feb 21 18:14:16 (and the kernel too) Feb 21 18:15:46 not yet Feb 21 18:16:21 You'll need to update the userspace tools too Feb 21 18:16:35 the syscall number has changed, so the userspace stuff has been updated Feb 21 18:16:54 i see the patches, but cmdline support is still missing Feb 21 18:17:30 hmm Feb 21 18:17:40 I can't say I've played with kexec Feb 21 18:19:12 i think its very interesting to boot a small system from flash an then kexec the real system completely from external hdd or usb-stick Feb 21 18:19:14 Sinclair73de: would this help eliminate the ramdisk/initrd? Feb 21 18:19:56 I'm interested in trying anything that can speed up my boot. Feb 21 18:20:39 t think with kexec the boot after power up is slower then without Feb 21 18:20:53 but reboot can be faster Feb 21 18:21:35 i dont know so much about ramdisk/initrd Feb 21 18:22:30 the kernel booted with kexec is without ramdisk/initrd i think Feb 21 21:41:10 hi **** ENDING LOGGING AT Thu Feb 22 02:59:58 2007