On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 11:20:13AM -0400, Don Zickus wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 06:56:36PM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote:
> > 
> > Attaching three kexec-tools patches to check whether the current kernel
> > has reserved memory for crashkernel. The check is done by calling
> > architecture dependent functions. If no memory is reserved for
> > crashkernel, it displays appropriate error message and exits.
> > 
> > PATCH 1: Checks for crashkernel memory reservation by calling
> > architecture dependent function. It also creates dummy function for ppc,
> > ia64 and s390 architectures to avoid problem in build process.
> > 
> > PATCH 2: ppc64 specific crashkernel memory reservation check
> > 
> > PATCH 3: i386 and x86-64 specific crashkernel memory reservation check
> > 
> > Any suggestion, feedback?
> 
> Pardon my ignorance, but why is there arch dependent functions to begin
> with?  This seems like it should be generic code?  Yes, I read through the
> ppc64 and i386/x86_64 patches and see both implementations are different,
> but I also didn't see anything arch specific in either of those patches.
> 

Makes sense.

Mohan, On ppc64 also can't we read presence of [EMAIL PROTECTED] from
/proc/cmdline itself? Does it have to be read from device tree only?

-Vivek
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