Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20: ia64 portion

2007-01-12 Thread Horms
Hi, this patch fills in the portions for ia64 kexec. I'm actually not sure what options are required for the dump-capture kernel, but "init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1" has been working fine for me. Or more to the point, I'm not sure if irqpoll is needed or not. This patch requires the documentation pat

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20: ia64 portion

2007-01-12 Thread Andreas Schwab
Horms <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > + If the start address is specified, not that the start address of the note > + kernel will be alligned to 64Mb, so any if the start address is not then aligned XXX > + any space below t

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20: ia64 portion

2007-01-12 Thread Horms
Hi, this patch fills in the portions for ia64 kexec. I'm actually not sure what options are required for the dump-capture kernel, but "init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1" has been working fine for me. Or more to the point, I'm not sure if irqpoll is needed or not. This patch requires the documentation pat

RE: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20: ia64 portion

2007-01-12 Thread Zou, Nanhai
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Horms > Sent: 2007年1月12日 14:07 > To: Vivek Goyal > Cc: Mohan Kumar M; Andrew Morton; Zou, Nanhai; Luck, Tony; > linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org; fastboot@lists.osdl.org; > linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org > Subj

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-11 Thread Horms
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 02:45:15PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:07:05AM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote: > > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:17:08PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > > > Mohan, Can you please check the correctness of ppc64 specific details. > > > > > > > Vivek, > >

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-10 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 11:07:05AM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:17:08PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > Mohan, Can you please check the correctness of ppc64 specific details. > > > > Vivek, > > My inputs. > Thanks Mohan. I have updated the document as per your feed

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-09 Thread Mohan Kumar M
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:17:08PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Mohan, Can you please check the correctness of ppc64 specific details. > Vivek, My inputs. > > > + --append="root= init 1 irqpoll maxcpus=1" > > > + > > > +If you are using a relocatable kernel (method 2), then use > > > +follo

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-09 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 10:53:34AM +0900, Horms wrote: > On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:34:12AM +0800, Zou, Nanhai wrote: > > > > > > > > I am hoping it --args-linux will be required while loading vmlinux on > > > > IA64? Because this is ELF file specific option. And this interface > > > > should > >

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-09 Thread Horms
On Wed, Jan 10, 2007 at 09:34:12AM +0800, Zou, Nanhai wrote: > > > > > > I am hoping it --args-linux will be required while loading vmlinux on > > > IA64? Because this is ELF file specific option. And this interface should > > > be common across all the architectures. > > > > > > > Then again, I co

RE: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-09 Thread Zou, Nanhai
> -Original Message- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Horms > Sent: 2007年1月10日 8:31 > To: Vivek Goyal > Cc: linux kernel mailing list; Fastboot mailing list; Morton Andrew Morton; > Mohan Kumar M > Subject: Re: [PATCH] Kdump documen

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-09 Thread Horms
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 08:17:08PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:18:47AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > > Download and build the system and dump-capture kernels > > > -- > > > +There are two possible methods of using Kdump. > >

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-09 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Tue, Jan 09, 2007 at 10:18:47AM +0900, Horms wrote: > > Download and build the system and dump-capture kernels > > -- > > +There are two possible methods of using Kdump. > > + > > + 1) Build a separate custom dump-capture kernel for capturi

Re: [PATCH] Kdump documentation update for 2.6.20

2007-01-08 Thread Horms
On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 01:28:03PM +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > > o Kdump documentation update. > - Update details for using relocatable kernel. > - Start using kexec-tools-testing release as it is latest and old > kexec-tools can't load relocatable bzImage file. > > Sign