Re: Implementing a kexec()-style system call for FreeBSD 14 to boot a Linux kernel directly from FreeBSD.

On Mon, Apr 8, 2024, 6:55 PM Zhenlei Huang <zlei@freebsd.org> wrote:

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> On Apr 9, 2024, at 4:49 AM, Mario Marietto <marietto2008@gmail.com> wrote:
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> Hello.
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> surfing the net I found this :
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> https://github.com/fail0verflow/ps4-kexec
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> 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 ?
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> Personally I do not care "boot a Linux kernel directly from FreeBSD". I'm
> interested in "boot new FreeBSD kernel directly from FreeBSD"
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Aarch64 is in and working in current.   Amd64 is about 80% done.

But you could also boot FreeBSD from FreeBSD with this...

Warner

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> Mario.
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> Best regards,
> Zhenlei
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