linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically

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Date:	Mon, 14 Jul 2008 11:17:16 -0700
From:	"Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com>
To:	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>
Cc:	"Bernhard Walle" <bwalle@...e.de>,
	"Vivek Goyal" <vgoyal@...hat.com>, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
	x86@...nel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86: Find offset for crashkernel reservation automatically

On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 10:30 AM, Eric W. Biederman
<ebiederm@...ssion.com> wrote:
> "Yinghai Lu" <yhlu.kernel@...il.com> writes:
>
>> for 64bit, kdump can start from address above 4g with bzImage?
>
> I think the boot protocol was properly updated for that, it was in the
> original drafts.  A relocatable kernel with a 64bit entry point.
>
> I do know that the 64bit code is ready to do that.

but bzImage for 64bit still use 32bit entries, except kexec could
uncompress the bzImage like xen domain builder.

YH
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