From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com (Mika Westerberg) Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:29:34 +0300 Subject: [PATCH v2 6/8] arm: allow passing an ELF64 header to elf_check_arch() In-Reply-To: References: <3c8da055f0a84cfd1c6659d9fda24e4eb97ab9fb.1273041358.git.ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com> <20100510112036.GC14337@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100510120920.GD11783@esdhcp04058.research.nokia.com> <20100510122156.GA7796@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100716081405.GR4247@esdhcp04058.research.nokia.com> Message-ID: <20100825122934.GL15307@esdhcp04058.research.nokia.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Hi, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 04:40:45AM +0200, ext Lei Wen wrote: > > I have tried your patch, and it works perfect. > But there is something inconvenient that I have to modify the > PHYS_OFFSET and mach/Makefile.boot > manually if I want to get a kdump capable kernel. Yeah, it's a bit annoying. I remember that I had some plans to make it configurable but never implemented it. > How about add additional configuration like CONFIG_RELOCATABLE > CONFIG_PHYSICAL_STARTas x86? > This would do great help for formal usage. You are right, something like that is eventually needed. I'll try to find some time to look into that and cook up some solution. Thanks, MW From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Date: Wed, 25 Aug 2010 15:29:34 +0300 From: Mika Westerberg Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 6/8] arm: allow passing an ELF64 header to elf_check_arch() Message-ID: <20100825122934.GL15307@esdhcp04058.research.nokia.com> References: <3c8da055f0a84cfd1c6659d9fda24e4eb97ab9fb.1273041358.git.ext-mika.1.westerberg@nokia.com> <20100510112036.GC14337@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100510120920.GD11783@esdhcp04058.research.nokia.com> <20100510122156.GA7796@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> <20100716081405.GR4247@esdhcp04058.research.nokia.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: ext Lei Wen Cc: "kexec@lists.infradead.org" , ext Russell King - ARM Linux , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" Hi, On Wed, Aug 25, 2010 at 04:40:45AM +0200, ext Lei Wen wrote: > > I have tried your patch, and it works perfect. > But there is something inconvenient that I have to modify the > PHYS_OFFSET and mach/Makefile.boot > manually if I want to get a kdump capable kernel. Yeah, it's a bit annoying. I remember that I had some plans to make it configurable but never implemented it. > How about add additional configuration like CONFIG_RELOCATABLE > CONFIG_PHYSICAL_STARTas x86? > This would do great help for formal usage. You are right, something like that is eventually needed. I'll try to find some time to look into that and cook up some solution. Thanks, MW _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec