Fwd: Options for kdump kernel location

[Michael Ellerman]

On Thu, 18 Aug 2005 17:02, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Generally it's looking like option 2 is safer, assuming we can get the
> kernel booting at !0.
>
> I've got patches which go some way to doing that, at the moment my kernel
> linked at 64MB explodes as soon as we try to lmb_alloc() - not sure why
> yet.

Well duh, because lmb_alloc() starts allocating from the top of RAM and that's 
not mapped - and we have no exceptions. So that should be fixed by putting 
trampolines at zero for all the exceptions .. tomorrow.

And now I'm going to stop replying to myself, it's getting a little weird.

cheers

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