[PATCH] kexec/kdump: Minor Documentation updates for arm64 and Image

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This patch have minor updates in Documentation for arm64i as
relocatable kernel.
Also this patch updates documentation for using uncompressed
image "Image" which is used for ARM64.

Signed-off-by: Bharat Bhushan <Bharat.Bhushan@xxxxxxx>
---
 Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 10 ++++++++--
 1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 615434d..522ce13 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
@@ -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 a 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
-- 
1.9.3

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