[PATCH] Remove legacy kdump kernel build support
Anton Vorontsov
avorontsov at ru.mvista.com
Wed Oct 1 03:25:40 EST 2008
On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:18:28PM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote:
> Remove legacy kdump kernel build support
>
> This patch removes legacy kdump kernel build support(i.e compiling a
> kdump kernel at a fixed hardcoded address 32MB). With the relocatable
> kernel support its now possible to use the regular kernel binary for
> capturing the dump also. Relocatable kdump kernel does not require
> trampoline code for exception handlers. It removes kdump.h as most of the
> macros defined in kdump.h are not used any more. Also the relocatable
> kdump kernel allows us to load kdump kernel any where as specified by
> crashkernel parameter instead of hardcoded address 32MB.
Can we leave the legacy support for a while? On PPC32 we don't have
the relocatable kernel support, but we have kdump patches floating
around[1], and they use the `hard-coded values' approach, so far.
I'm not sure if anybody is currently working on a PPC32 kernel
relocation support.. but for sure it will take some time to implement.
Thanks,
[1] http://ozlabs.org/pipermail/linuxppc-dev/2008-August/061161.html
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