Messages in this thread | | | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_RELOCATABLE | Date | Mon, 23 Apr 2007 00:17:22 -0600 |
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Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:
> On Sun, Apr 22, 2007 at 11:15:48PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> +++ b/arch/x86_64/Kconfig >> @@ -565,62 +565,9 @@ config CRASH_DUMP >> which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into >> a specially reserved region and then later executed after >> a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled >> - to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using >> - PHYSICAL_START. >> + to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS >> For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > > Hi Eric, > > I think "must be compiled" should be replaced with "must be loaded" now.
Yes, that sounds right. Ugh. I didn't look at enough context to read the whole sentence. I just killed the part about PHYSICAL_START.
> Otherwise both the patches look fine. I am planning to test these. > > This change will also require modifications to Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > file.
Do you think you can generate the patch fix up the CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP and kdump.txt documentation.
I was just interested enough to spend the 15 minutes needed to generate this patch. I don't think I care enough to dot the i's and cross the t's in the documentation.
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