On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:44:17PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Now we have limit kdump reserved under 896M, because kexec has the limitation. > and also bzImage need to stay under 4g. > > kernel parts changes could be found at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git for-x86-boot > > here patches are for kexec tools to load bzImage and ramdisk above 4G > acccording to new added boot header fields. > > -v3: address review from Eric to use locate_hole at first. > use xloadflags instead. > -v4: remove the restriction about bzImage not crossing GB boundary. > add real-mode fix for bzImage. > add --entry-32bit and --real-mode for skip bzImage64. > -v5: use USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS bit in xloadflags. > -v6: use sentinel instead of USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS. > add crashkernel_low support > -v7: Separate bootloader id setting in another patch Hi Yinghai, Hi All, my current thinking with regards to this is that I would like to take these changes into the kexec-tools tree once there is consensus and kernel portions have been accepted. If that makes sense please let me know when those conditions have been met. Otherwise lets discuss a different strategy.
