Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>]

On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:53:34AM +0900, Horms wrote:
> On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:34:12AM +0800, Zou, Nanhai wrote:
> > > >
> > > > I am hoping it --args-linux will be required while loading vmlinux on
> > > > IA64? Because this is ELF file specific option. And this interface should
> > > > be common across all the architectures.
> > > >
> > > > > Then again, I could be wrong, I'm not sure that I understand
> > > > > --args-linux, I just know that I'm not using it :)
> > >
> > > I will take a look into this.
> > >
> >  args-linux is not support by IA64 kdump.
> > To have common interface, maybe we should support it by ignore this
> > arg like ppc does.
> 
> That sounds reasonable to me. Vivek, what do you think?
> 

I think we should recognize --args-linux while loading elf image and
all the processing we do for loading linux elf vmlinux should be done
under that option (The way i386 does). This will help if down the line
kexec ia64 loader allows loading some other elf images where one needs
to prepare elf boot notes (--args-elf). 

Eric is the best person to comment on this. He has got all the background
about these options.

Thanks
Vivek