Date: Tue, 9 Apr 2024 00:44:01 -0600 From: Warner Losh <imp@bsdimp.com> To: Zhenlei Huang <zlei@freebsd.org> Cc: Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com>, freebsd-hackers <freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org>, FreeBSD Mailing List <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Implementing a kexec()-style system call for FreeBSD 14 to boot a Linux kernel directly from FreeBSD. Message-ID: <CANCZdfoHOQGZvK3=Pz6k9wNooGxiVtJBbJng4vPxazuYsBsZHQ@mail.gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <2C59E3CF-CF00-4E36-9DAC-5DA01C9B0B23@FreeBSD.org> References: <CA%2B1FSigNSfhbzfYr_F=xJsBfOFJvL_D=UdgF3R_fTHPXwtHk0Q@mail.gmail.com> <2C59E3CF-CF00-4E36-9DAC-5DA01C9B0B23@FreeBSD.org>
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[-- Attachment #1 --] On Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 6:55 PM Zhenlei Huang <zlei@freebsd.org> wrote: > > > On Apr 9, 2024, at 4:49 AM, Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote: > > Hello. > > surfing the net I found this : > > https://github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-kexec > > It was built for Orbis (based on FreeBSD 9) ; a very old FreeBSD version. > But I'm intrigued by the idea to update the code and make it work for a > recent version of FreeBSD. It would be cool to "boot a Linux kernel > directly from FreeBSD"...Any consideration ? > > > Personally I do not care "boot a Linux kernel directly from FreeBSD". I'm > interested in "boot new FreeBSD kernel directly from FreeBSD" > Aarch64 is in and working in current. Amd64 is about 80% done. But you could also boot FreeBSD from FreeBSD with this... Warner > > -- > Mario. > > > Best regards, > Zhenlei > > [-- Attachment #2 --] <div dir="auto"><div><br><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 6:55 PM Zhenlei Huang <<a href="mailto:zlei@freebsd.org">zlei@freebsd.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><br><div><br><blockquote type="cite"><div>On Apr 9, 2024, at 4:49 AM, Mario Marietto <<a href="mailto:marietto2008@gmail.com" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">marietto2008@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><br><div><div dir="ltr"><div>Hello.</div><div><br></div><div>surfing the net I found this :</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-kexec" target="_blank" rel="noreferrer">https://github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-kexec</a></div><div><br></div><div>It was built for Orbis (based on FreeBSD 9) ; a very old FreeBSD version. But I'm intrigued by the idea to update the code and make it work for a recent version of FreeBSD. It would be cool to "boot a Linux kernel directly from FreeBSD"...Any consideration ?<br></div></div></div></blockquote><div><br></div><div>Personally I do not care "boot a Linux kernel directly from FreeBSD". I'm interested in "boot new FreeBSD kernel directly from FreeBSD"</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Aarch64 is in and working in current. Amd64 is about 80% done.</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">But you could also boot FreeBSD from FreeBSD with this...</div><div dir="auto"><br></div><div dir="auto">Warner </div><div dir="auto"><div class="gmail_quote"><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style="word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockquote type="cite"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br></div><span class="gmail_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature">Mario.<br></div></div> </div></blockquote></div><br><div> <div>Best regards,</div><div>Zhenlei</div> </div> <br></div></blockquote></div></div></div>
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