[PATCH] Fix kdump kernel hang issue with relocatable kernel patches

Mohan Kumar M mohan at in.ibm.com
Fri Oct 10 03:34:16 EST 2008


Paul Mackerras wrote:

> 
> Hmmm.  Is there any reason to continue to support non-relocatable
> 64-bit kernels being kdump kernels?  In other words, for 64-bit,
> couldn't we make CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP depend on CONFIG_RELOCATABLE?

We wanted to support legacy kdump feature on 64 bit kernels for some 
time. But if nobody needs the legacy kdump, we can make kdump depend on 
relocatable

Regards,
Mohan.



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