[PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically

Yinghai Lu yhlu.kernel at gmail.com
Mon Jul 14 14:17:16 EDT 2008


On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm at xmission.com> wrote:
> "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel at gmail.com> writes:
>
>> for 64bit, kdump can start from address above 4g with bzImage?
>
> I think the boot protocol was properly updated for that, it was in the
> original drafts.  A relocatable kernel with a 64bit entry point.
>
> I do know that the 64bit code is ready to do that.

but bzImage for 64bit still use 32bit entries, except kexec could
uncompress the bzImage like xen domain builder.

YH



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