Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> writes: > * Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi at mxs.nes.nec.co.jp> [2007-06-01 11:07]: >> >> Now, the items makedumpfile cannot get from vmlinux statically are >> only version and page size. Do you have any idea for getting them >> from vmlinux ? > > I already tried to address a similar issue (version + command line > length for kexec-tools) by adding a ELF note. But it seems that kernel > hackers didn't like it. > > http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.fastboot.general/3996/. I'm not seeing the discussion there. Looking at the patch I'm not quite certain of the composition of your notes. However as a general direction of using ELF notes I'm more or less in favor of it. Eric
