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Date: Thu, 18 Nov 2010 09:23:22 -0500 From: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com> To: Pavel Machek <pma@...go.com> Cc: kernel list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, horms@...ge.net.au, 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.) > For kexec you will not need CONFIG_RELOCATABLE_KERNEL. But if you also want to use kdump and use same bzImage as first kernel then you will need relocatable kernel support. For kdump I had done two presentations at OLS. You might find little bit of kexec details too. Kdump: Smarter, Easier, Trustier http://www.kernel.org/doc/ols/2007/ols2007v1-pages-167-178.pdf Kdump, a kexec based crash dumping mechanism. http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/documentation/ols2oo5-kdump-paper.pdf thanks Vivek > 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 are no longer valid :-(. > Pavel -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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