From: Maneesh Soni <maneesh@in.ibm.com>
To: kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: ELF64 header on i386
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 10:42:28 +0530 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070703051228.GA8394@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070702131541.GA6084@suse.de>
On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:15:41PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Hello,
>
> why creates kexec-tools ELF64 headers per default on i386? Wouldn't it
> make more sense to look if a physical address exceeds the 32-bit limit
> and then switch to ELF64 automatically if the user doesn't have
> specified an option?
>
I am aware of one issue, that gdb on i386 is not able to analyse ELF64
formatted kdump though "crash" can.
Thanks
Maneesh
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Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center,
IBM India Systems and Technology Lab,
Bangalore, India
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-07-03 5:12 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-07-02 13:15 ELF64 header on i386 Bernhard Walle
2007-07-03 5:12 ` Maneesh Soni [this message]
2007-07-03 16:12 ` [PATCH] Determine ELF32/ELF64 automatically " Bernhard Walle
2007-07-10 5:52 ` Vivek Goyal
2007-07-10 8:23 ` Bernhard Walle
2007-07-27 5:12 ` Horms
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