On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:18:28PM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote: > Remove legacy kdump kernel build support > > This patch removes legacy kdump kernel build support(i.e compiling a > kdump kernel at a fixed hardcoded address 32MB). With the relocatable > kernel support its now possible to use the regular kernel binary for > capturing the dump also. Relocatable kdump kernel does not require > trampoline code for exception handlers. It removes kdump.h as most of the > macros defined in kdump.h are not used any more. Also the relocatable > kdump kernel allows us to load kdump kernel any where as specified by > crashkernel parameter instead of hardcoded address 32MB. Can we leave the legacy support for a while? On PPC32 we don't have the relocatable kernel support, but we have kdump patches floating around[1], and they use the `hard-coded values' approach, so far. I'm not sure if anybody is currently working on a PPC32 kernel relocation support.. but for sure it will take some time to implement. Thanks, [1] http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-August/061161.html -- Anton Vorontsov email: cbouatmailru at gmail.com irc://irc.freenode.net/bd2