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+Subject: [PATCH v3 0/3] arm64 kexec-tools patches
+
+This series adds the core support for kexec re-boot on ARM64.
+
+Linux kernel support for kexec reboot [1] has been merged to the ARM64
+for-next/core branch with the expectation that it will be included in the v4.8
+stable kernel release.
+
+For ARM64 kdump support see Takahiro's patches [2].
+
+[1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-June/438780.html
+[2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-July/016642.html
+
+Changes for v4 (Aug 10, 2016, 1m):
+
+  o Fix some error return values and error messages.
+  o Add enum arm64_header_page_size.
+
+Changes for v3 (Aug 10, 2016, 1m):
+
+  o Rebase to 2.0.13.
+  o Add support for flag bits 1-3 to arm64 image-header.h.
+  o Fix OPT_ARCH_MAX value.
+  o Use fdt_pack() in dtb_set_property().
+  o Remove patch ("kexec: (bugfix) calc correct end address of memory ranges in device tree").
+
+Changes for v2 (July 26, 2016, 0m):
+
+  o Inline some small routines.
+  o Reformat some dbgprintf messages.
+  o Remove debug_brk from entry.S
+  o Change arm64_image_header.flags to uint64_t.
+  o Look in iomem then dt for mem info.
+  o Remove check_cpu_nodes.
+  o Remove purgatory printing.
+
+First submission v1 (July 20, 2016).
+
+-Geoff