On Friday, February 08, 2013 12:25:14 PM Eric W. Biederman wrote: > Thomas Renninger <trenn at suse.de> writes: ... > > In a kernel which has the patch/functionality backported I would do > > > > it like this then: > > - If the special kdump e820 type shows up, all memmap options from > > > > memmap=exactmap on are ignored and the kexec-tools passed > > e820 table is used just as it is. > > -> This would still allow e820 modifcations through memmap= > > if passed manually for debugging, they just have to show up before > > the kexec-tools generated ones. Anyway, I will also send a patch > > how I think this can be backported and still work with old and new > > kexec-tools versions. > > Way over complicated. kexec-tools can just stop passing the memmap= > options entirely for every kernel. Ah yes, sure. This is really nice. I hope things work out like that, I'll report back next week. Have a nice week-end, Thomas
