linux-kernel - Re: kexec documentation missing, bad links in kdump.txt

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Message-ID: <20101118101704.GC5171@cr0.nay.redhat.com>
Date:	Thu, 18 Nov 2010 18:17:04 +0800
From:	Américo Wang <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>
To:	Pavel Machek <pma@...go.com>
Cc:	kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, horms@...ge.net.au,
	vgoyal@...hat.com, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	randy.dunlap@...cle.com
Subject: Re: kexec documentation missing, bad links in kdump.txt

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:50:15AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>Hi!
>
>Where can one get kexec documentation?
>
>(In particular, we are trying to get it to boot on ARM board, and
>wonder if something like CONFIG_RELOCATABLE_KERNEL is needed.)
>


If you want to use the same kernel as the crash kernel, yes,
you have to support relocatable during boot on your arch.


>Unfortunately, only pieces mentioning kexec are kdump pieces
>(Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt), and links there, such as
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools.tar.gz
>
>http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/README.html
>
>http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools.git
>
>are no longer valid :-(.

Try:

 git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git


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