I am going to see about merging these two threads. Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org> writes: > On Fri, Oct 5, 2012 at 2:41 PM, Eric W. Biederman <ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote: >> Yinghai Lu <yinghai at kernel.org> writes: >> >>> with bzImage or vmlinux? >> >> bzImage I presume. Certainly the bzImage has lost it's 896M limit, >> which is where ultimiately the 896M limite came from. > > they are using updated kexec-tools ? > > last time when i checked the code for kexec-tools > found the 896M problem was from kexec-tools bzimage support. Cliff Wickman was the guy at sgi running the tests. To the best of my knowledge he was runing an up to date kexec-tools and was loading a bzImage. Of course his initial reaction was where did the 896M limit come from, as he had just updated to a kernel with the limit a few weeks ago. YH please talk to Cliff directly. Eric
