On Fri, Jul 22, 2011 at 05:26:32PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > Hello Vivek, > > Still thinking how we best get elfcorehdr size... > > On Mon, 2011-07-18 at 11:25 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > On Mon, Jul 18, 2011 at 04:44:13PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > You could do that but I think a more generic parameter will make more > > sense. > > > > - Either something along the lines of memmap= > > - Or excludemem=x at y > > - Or modify memory map in s390 specific bootloading protocol block etc. > > Wouldn't it be most natural to pass the length along with the address of > the ELF core header? What about extending the kernel elfcorehdr kernel > parameter and adding optional size: > > elfcorehdr=<addr>[KMG],<size>[KMG] I think it could be memap= style. elfcorehdr=X[KMG]@Y[KMG]. Though to support backward compatibility we will have to support old format of plain elfcorehdr=X too. Thanks Vivek
