On Tue, Oct 02, 2018 at 11:10:16AM -0700, Laura Abbott wrote:
> On 10/02/2018 08:12 AM, Lennart Poettering wrote:
> >Can you give examples of other kernel subsystems that are also
> >advertised as available by the Fedora kernel, and part of the core
> >kernel RPM but are of this "tech preview" kind?
>
> Another example would be kexec. The Fedora kernel nominally supports
> this feature but it requires some setup and tends to be finicky to
> set up. We'd certainly take patches to fix it and we've started
> to get more engaged with the kexec team to make sure it works but
> ultimately it's best effort.
FWIW, recent systemd does kexec "setup" automatically if sd-boot is used,
i.e. no setup is required, and 'systemctl kexec' should boot the same kernel
with the same options that a full reboot would.
If sd-boot is not used, some setup is necessary, alas.
Zbyszek