On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 11:55 AM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote: > Bernhard Walle <bwalle at suse.de> writes: > >> But such checks belong into kexec itself, not into the kernel. > > Exactly. > > All we should do in the kernel is bias the search for a low address. > As that is more usable. let kexec to uncompress the bzImage (need to check if header version is 2.0.8(?) above?) , if the kdump_base is above 4g. YH