Re: [PATCH] ppc64: kexec support for ppc64

From: Paul Mackerras
Date: Fri May 06 2005 - 21:37:31 EST


Andrew Morton writes:

> But you didn't address the question of whether the kexec feature is
> sufficiently useful in its own right to justify merging.

On POWER4 boxes running in SMP (non-partitioned) mode it would be
extremely useful, because the firmware takes such an age to boot the
machine.

Paul.
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