On Thursday 18 May 2017 04:23 PM, Bharat Bhushan wrote: > This patch have minor updates in Documentation for arm64i as arm64 > relocatable kernel. > Also this patch updates documentation for using uncompressed > image "Image" which is used for ARM64. > > Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan at nxp.com> > --- > v1->v2 > - "a uncompressed" replaced with "an uncompressed" Reviewed-by: Pratyush Anand <panand at redhat.com> > > Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 12 +++++++++--- > 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) > > diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > index 615434d..5181445 100644 > --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt > @@ -112,8 +112,8 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump. > 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is > no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible > only with the architectures which support a relocatable kernel. As > - of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64 and arm architectures support relocatable > - kernel. > + of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64, ia64, arm and arm64 architectures support > + relocatable kernel. > > Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that > one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But > @@ -339,7 +339,7 @@ For arm: > For arm64: > - Use vmlinux or Image > > -If you are using a uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command > +If you are using an uncompressed vmlinux image then use following command > to load dump-capture kernel. > > kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-vmlinux-image> \ > @@ -361,6 +361,12 @@ to load dump-capture kernel. > --dtb=<dtb-for-dump-capture-kernel> \ > --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>" > > +If you are using an uncompressed Image, then use following command > +to load dump-capture kernel. > + > + kexec -p <dump-capture-kernel-Image> \ > + --initrd=<initrd-for-dump-capture-kernel> \ > + --append="root=<root-dev> <arch-specific-options>" > > Please note, that --args-linux does not need to be specified for ia64. > It is planned to make this a no-op on that architecture, but for now >