linux-kernel - Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

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Date:	Fri, 17 Dec 2010 11:50:57 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>
CC:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	Stanislaw Gruszka <sgruszka@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Maxim Uvarov <muvarov@...il.com>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Neil Horman <nhorman@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

On 12/17/2010 11:46 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>
>> Why?  896 MiB is a 32-bit kernel limitation which doesn't have anything
>> to do with the bzImage format.
>>
>> So unless there is something going on here, I suspect you're just plain
>> flat wrong.
> 
> kexec-tools have some checking when it loads bzImage.
> 

So kexec-tools are broken?

	-hpa
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