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Date: Thu, 09 Oct 2008 22:04:16 +0530
From: Mohan Kumar M <mohan@in.ibm.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix kdump kernel hang issue with relocatable kernel
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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.