* Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> [2007-06-01 15:40]: > 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. Because there was no real discussion about ELF notes here. I just created this first patch as attempt to add ELF notes. The idea was from Vivek Goyal. > Looking at the patch I'm not quite certain of the composition of your > notes. Well, it was a first attempt. I'm open to any suggestions about that topic. Thanks, Bernhard
