ELF64 header on i386

[Maneesh Soni]

On Mon, Jul 02, 2007 at 03:15:41PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> Hello,
> 
> why creates kexec-tools ELF64 headers per default on i386? Wouldn't it
> make more sense to look if a physical address exceeds the 32-bit limit
> and then switch to ELF64 automatically if the user doesn't have
> specified an option?
> 

I am aware of one issue, that gdb on i386 is not able to analyse ELF64 
formatted kdump though "crash" can. 

Thanks
Maneesh


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Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center,
IBM India Systems and Technology Lab, 
Bangalore, India