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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>
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On Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 6:55=E2=80=AFPM 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
>
>

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<div dir=3D"auto"><div><br><br><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><div dir=3D"ltr" =
class=3D"gmail_attr">On Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 6:55=E2=80=AFPM Zhenlei Huang &lt=
;<a href=3D"mailto:zlei@freebsd.org">zlei@freebsd.org</a>&gt; wrote:<br></d=
iv><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left=
:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div style=3D"word-wrap:break-word;line-b=
reak:after-white-space"><br><div><br><blockquote type=3D"cite"><div>On Apr =
9, 2024, at 4:49 AM, Mario Marietto &lt;<a href=3D"mailto:marietto2008@gmai=
l.com" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">marietto2008@gmail.com</a>&gt; =
wrote:</div><br><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div>Hello.</div><div><br></div><div>=
surfing the net I found this :</div><div><br></div><div><a href=3D"https://=
github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-kexec" target=3D"_blank" rel=3D"noreferrer">htt=
ps://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&#3=
9;m intrigued by the idea to update the code and make it work for a recent =
version of FreeBSD. It would be cool to &quot;boot a Linux kernel directly =
from FreeBSD&quot;...Any consideration ?<br></div></div></div></blockquote>=
<div><br></div><div>Personally I do not care &quot;boot a Linux kernel dire=
ctly from FreeBSD&quot;. I&#39;m interested in &quot;boot new FreeBSD kerne=
l directly from FreeBSD&quot;</div></div></div></blockquote></div></div><di=
v dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Aarch64 is in and working in cur=
rent.=C2=A0 =C2=A0Amd64 is about 80% done.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div=
><div dir=3D"auto">But you could also boot FreeBSD from FreeBSD with this..=
.</div><div dir=3D"auto"><br></div><div dir=3D"auto">Warner=C2=A0</div><div=
 dir=3D"auto"><div class=3D"gmail_quote"><blockquote class=3D"gmail_quote" =
style=3D"margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><di=
v style=3D"word-wrap:break-word;line-break:after-white-space"><div><blockqu=
ote type=3D"cite"><div><div dir=3D"ltr"><div><br></div><span class=3D"gmail=
_signature_prefix">-- </span><br><div dir=3D"ltr" class=3D"gmail_signature"=
 data-smartmail=3D"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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