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From: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: ppcdev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kdump kernel hang issue with relocatable kernel patches
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:04:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EE3288.7080105@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18669.38794.476429.103254@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras wrote:

> 
> Hmmm.  Is there any reason to continue to support non-relocatable
> 64-bit kernels being kdump kernels?  In other words, for 64-bit,
> couldn't we make CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depend on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE?

We wanted to support legacy kdump feature on 64 bit kernels for some 
time. But if nobody needs the legacy kdump, we can make kdump depend on 
relocatable

Regards,
Mohan.

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From: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: ppcdev <linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org>, kexec@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kdump kernel hang issue with relocatable kernel patches
Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:04:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <48EE3288.7080105@in.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18669.38794.476429.103254@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

Paul Mackerras wrote:

> 
> Hmmm.  Is there any reason to continue to support non-relocatable
> 64-bit kernels being kdump kernels?  In other words, for 64-bit,
> couldn't we make CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depend on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE?

We wanted to support legacy kdump feature on 64 bit kernels for some 
time. But if nobody needs the legacy kdump, we can make kdump depend on 
relocatable

Regards,
Mohan.

  reply	other threads:[~2008-10-09 16:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2008-10-01 18:25 [PATCH] Fix kdump kernel hang issue with relocatable kernel patches Mohan Kumar M
2008-10-01 18:25 ` Mohan Kumar M
2008-10-09  5:32 ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-09  5:32   ` Paul Mackerras
2008-10-09 16:34   ` Mohan Kumar M [this message]
2008-10-09 16:34     ` Mohan Kumar M

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