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From: Don Zickus <dzickus@redhat.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [Patch] IA64 Kexec/Kdump patch for 2.6.18-rc6
Date: Fri, 15 Sep 2006 14:09:06 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060915140906.GD3512@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <BAC6D88895D68Findou.takao@jp.fujitsu.com>

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


  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-09-15 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-09-15  5:34 [Fastboot] [Patch] IA64 Kexec/Kdump patch for 2.6.18-rc6 Takao Indoh
2006-09-15  5:58 ` Takao Indoh
2006-09-15  7:27 ` Keith Owens
2006-09-15 14:09 ` Don Zickus [this message]
2006-09-19 10:13 ` Gerald Pfeifer
2006-09-19 22:39 ` Keith Owens
2006-09-22  4:09 ` [Fastboot] [Patch] ia64 Kexec/Kdump patch for 2.6.18 Horms
2006-09-22  7:39 ` Horms

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