Re: amd64: kernel aslr support

[Maxime Villard <max%m00nbsd.net@localhost>]

Le 05/10/2017 à 17:39, Mouse a écrit :
> > > Is live-kernel update more viable with this approach?
> > Live kernel update is a much more complicated business, [...]
>
> I didn't write that the bit about live-kernel updates, but it occurs to
> me that it could have been intended to refer not to updating the kernel
> without disturbing a running system but rather to something more along
> the lines of...kexec(), I think it was?  Basically, make the kernel -
> or, here, the prekern - play bootloader for a new kernel.  Reboot in
> most senses without actually dropping back to the hardware's BIOS (or
> moral equivalent, for non-peecees).

I think the real point is updating a running system without interrupting the
services it provides (apache etc). There is, I think, little interest in
pseudo-reboots via the prekern, except wanting a fast reboot - which is still
not really useful.

Maxime