From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from kirsty.vergenet.net ([202.4.237.240]) by merlin.infradead.org with esmtp (Exim 4.76 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1TyfGm-0006AL-Nf for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Fri, 25 Jan 2013 09:08:21 +0000 Date: Fri, 25 Jan 2013 18:08:18 +0900 From: Simon Horman Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 0/7] kexec: put bzImage and ramdisk above 4G for x86 64bit Message-ID: <20130125090818.GF30990@verge.net.au> References: <1359060264-10671-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1359060264-10671-1-git-send-email-yinghai@kernel.org> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Yinghai Lu Cc: Haren Myneni , kexec@lists.infradead.org, "Eric W. Biederman" , Vivek Goyal , "H. Peter Anvin" On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:44:17PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote: > Now we have limit kdump reserved under 896M, because kexec has the limitation. > and also bzImage need to stay under 4g. > > kernel parts changes could be found at: > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git for-x86-boot > > here patches are for kexec tools to load bzImage and ramdisk above 4G > acccording to new added boot header fields. > > -v3: address review from Eric to use locate_hole at first. > use xloadflags instead. > -v4: remove the restriction about bzImage not crossing GB boundary. > add real-mode fix for bzImage. > add --entry-32bit and --real-mode for skip bzImage64. > -v5: use USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS bit in xloadflags. > -v6: use sentinel instead of USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS. > add crashkernel_low support > -v7: Separate bootloader id setting in another patch Hi Yinghai, Hi All, my current thinking with regards to this is that I would like to take these changes into the kexec-tools tree once there is consensus and kernel portions have been accepted. If that makes sense please let me know when those conditions have been met. Otherwise lets discuss a different strategy. _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec