On Fri, Jun 27, 2008 at 04:06:56PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Vivek Goyal [2008-06-27 09:42]: > > > > Thinking more about. Let me step back. I think it is not good idea to > > take this kernel take decision about the capability of kernel being > > loaded. There is no way we can find out now that if a kernel is capable > > of running from this memory location or not. This is highly variable. So, > > please ignore above comment. > > Maybe below 4G makes sense. Because you need some 32 bit memory for DMA. > That's mostly an architecture limitation, so that could make sense to > check here. > Even if you need some 32bit memory in the lower regions, kexec can handle it with backup segment mechanism (currently 640K). We can always increse the backup region size. So I would think that it is best to leave it without any checking and then let kexec-tools handle it. Thanks Vivek
