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    SubjectRe: [PATCH] x86_64 kexec: Remove experimental mark of kexec
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    On Wed, 2006-09-06 at 14:15 -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
    > Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> writes:
    >
    > > On Wednesday 06 September 2006 18:55, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
    > >>
    > >> kexec has been marked experimental for a year now and all
    > >> of the serious problems have been worked through. So it
    > >> is time (if not past time) to remove the experimental mark.
    > >>
    > >
    > > Hmm, I personally have some doubts it is really not experimental
    > > (not because of the kexec code itself, but because of all the other drivers
    > > that still break)
    >
    > That is a reasonable viewpoint. Although by that a lot more of the kernel
    > deserves to be marked experimental.
    >
    > On the perverse side of the sentiment taking off experimental may increase
    > our number of testers and get the bugs fixed faster :)

    I take it that for using kexec to boot a kdump kernel and then
    rebooting the primary kernel that there are a few drivers in
    the dumping kernel that wouldn't work but they aren't likely
    to be used. Ie: it's "just" a hardware initialization issue
    on kernels booted with kexec.

    -piet

    >
    > > But applied for now.
    >
    > Thanks.
    >
    > Eric
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