[PATCH 0/3] Cleanup kdump memmap= passing and e820 usage

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 01/30/2013 04:15 PM, Thomas Renninger wrote:
> 
> I guess both ways are a huge enhancement compared to what we have now.
> Which approach to finally take should not matter that much, but because
> of above I still prefer to go this way:
> - Pass a kernel command line option that just changes the kernels idea
>   of which memory it can touch
> 

The kernel command line is a human-oriented data structure with limited
size and fairly complex semantics.

	-hpa