Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at 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. Eric
