Re: [Fastboot] [Patch] IA64 Kexec/Kdump patch for 2.6.18-rc6

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On Fri, Sep 15, 2006 at 10:55:49AM +0800, Zou Nan hai wrote:
> 
> Hi,
>    Here is a new version of IA64 Kexec/Kdump patch.
>    Update since last patch.
> 
>    1. Ignore offset in crashkernel=size@offset kernel parameter. kernel
> will find crashkernel region according to size at boot time. However
> crashkernel parameter format is not changed to keep compatibility with
> other archs

Just for conversation purposes:

Having offset determined at boot-time seems convienant and more scalable.
Is there a reason why we can't apply this to all archs?  Is it because we
lose some flexibility?

Cheers,
Don

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