Re: [PATCH 0/3] Cleanup kdump memmap= passing and e820 usage

H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-31T00:18:39Z

On 01/30/2013 04:15 PM, Thomas Renninger wrote:
>
> I guess both ways are a huge enhancement compared to what we have now.
> Which approach to finally take should not matter that much, but because
> of above I still prefer to go this way:
> - Pass a kernel command line option that just changes the kernels idea
> of which memory it can touch
>

The kernel command line is a human-oriented data structure with limited
size and fairly complex semantics.

-hpa