On Tue, Jun 05, 2007 at 06:22:18PM +1000, Michael Neuling wrote: > OK Looks like we parse the new command line to see if there is a > 'root=blah' parameter. If yes, use that, otherwise we use what was on > the last boot. For PPC64, if the user does not pass the kernel parameter, it is taken from the existing kernel parameter. In this case "crashkernel=X at Y" parameter is removed. If user explicitly gives the parameter, it is used. > > Is this what other architectures are doing? Is there any other special > cases we need to look out for? I am not sure about x86, I hope they expect that user has to _pass_ the kernel parameter. They don't copy the kernel parameter from current kernel. > > Mikey > > _______________________________________________ > kexec mailing list > kexec at lists.infradead.org > http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec
