[PATCH] Remove legacy kdump kernel build support

Mohan Kumar M mohan at in.ibm.com
Thu Oct 2 04:36:08 EST 2008


Anton Vorontsov wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 30, 2008 at 06:18:28PM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote:
>> Remove legacy kdump kernel build support
>>

Hi,

I have submitted the patch to support relocatable kdump kernel with 
retaining legacy kdump build support.

Regards,
Mohan.

> 
> 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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