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SubjectRe: [PATCH 2/2] x86_64: Remove CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START and CONFIG_RELOCATABLE
On Mon, Apr 23, 2007 at 12:17:22AM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 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.
>

Ok. I will send one.

Thanks
Vivek
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