[PATCH v7 0/7] kexec: put bzImage and ramdisk above 4G for x86 64bit

[Yinghai Lu]

On Fri, Jan 25, 2013 at 1:08 AM, Simon Horman <horms at verge.net.au> wrote:
> On Thu, Jan 24, 2013 at 12:44:17PM -0800, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>> Now we have limit kdump reserved under 896M, because kexec has the limitation.
>> and also bzImage need to stay under 4g.
>>
>> kernel parts changes could be found at:
>>         git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/yinghai/linux-yinghai.git for-x86-boot
>>
>> here patches are for kexec tools to load bzImage and ramdisk above 4G
>> acccording to new added boot header fields.
>>
>> -v3: address review from Eric to use locate_hole at first.
>>      use xloadflags instead.
>> -v4: remove the restriction about bzImage not crossing GB boundary.
>>      add real-mode fix for bzImage.
>>      add --entry-32bit and --real-mode for skip bzImage64.
>> -v5: use USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS bit in xloadflags.
>> -v6: use sentinel instead of USE_EXT_BOOT_PARAMS.
>>      add crashkernel_low support
>> -v7: Separate bootloader id setting in another patch
>
> Hi Yinghai, Hi All,
>
> my current thinking with regards to this is that I would like to take
> these changes into the kexec-tools tree once there is consensus and
> kernel portions have been accepted. If that makes sense please let me know
> when those conditions have been met. Otherwise lets discuss a different
> strategy.

Peter said he will put kernel related patches in tip soon with some
edits from him.

Do you want to wait those kexec-tools patches hit tip tree or Linus tree?

Thanks

Yinghai