[systemd-devel] [PATCH] shutdown: avoid calling `kexec` binary unnessecarily

[Lennart Poettering]

On Fri, 13.02.15 14:18, Shawn Landden (shawn at churchofgit.com) wrote:

> Still use helper when Xen Dom0, to avoid duplicating some hairy
> code.

Hmm, what precisely does the helper do on xen?

> So we don't have any logic to load kexec kernels?

Currently we don't.

My hope though was that we can make the whole kexec thing work without
having kexec-tools installed. With the new kernel syscall for loading
the kernel we should be able to implement this all without any other
tools.

Ideally we'd not use any external tools anymore, not even in the Xen
case, hence I am curious what precisely the special hookup for Xen is
here...? 

Lennart

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Lennart Poettering, Red Hat