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SubjectRe: [Patch] acpi: introduce "acpi_addr=" parameter for kdump


On Mon, 21 Mar 2011, Cong Wang wrote:

> 于 2011年03月11日 00:26, Randy Dunlap 写道:
> > On Thu, 10 Mar 2011 22:10:43 +0800 Amerigo Wang wrote:
> > > + acpi_addr= [ACPI,EFI]
> > > + Pass the RSDP address to the kernel, mostly used
> > > + on machines running EFI runtime service to boot the
> > > + second kernel for kdump.
> > > +
> >
> > I think that "acpi_addr" is a bit too generic. How about
> > acpi_rsdp or acpi_root instead?
> >
>
> Yup, I agree "acpi_rsdp" is better.

This should also be [KEXEC], and the code should be #ifdef CONFIG_KEXEC
so that sane people can exclude it from their kernels.

thanks,
Len Brown, Intel Open Source Technology Center
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