Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 May 2004 16:16:03 -0700 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] Re: [announce] kexec for linux 2.6.6 |
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David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com> wrote: > > >>>>> On Wed, 12 May 2004 15:28:15 -0700, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> said: > > >> ia64 does have VDSO (and has had it for some time). > > >> I quite like Uli's idea. > > Andrew> Is anyone doing VDSO development for x86? I don't recall > Andrew> seeing anything. > > It's already there?
But it needs work for the kexec requirement. If that work is purely the addition of the kexec entry point then OK, that can be part of the kexec patch.
But if we need additional infrastructure to "add new syscalls via VDSO" then this should be in the base kernel, even if it's empty, yes? - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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