On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 02:32:45PM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote: > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 05:38:58PM +0900, Horms wrote: > > On Wed, Sep 27, 2006 at 12:11:12PM +0530, Mohan Kumar M wrote: > > > In PPC64, /proc/iomem does not inclue the entry for "Crash kernel" > > > region as in i386/x86_64. PPC64 code checks for the presence of > > > linux,crashkernel-base file to check kdump kernel reservation, while > > > i386/x86_64 checks for /proc/iomem > > > > I wonder if there is any possibility of uinfying the behaviour. > > I also wonder if there is a good reason PPC64 doesn't use /proc/iomem. > > > > I hope that /proc/iomem should export IO related memory stuff only. It's > the case in PPC64. Isnt' it?
Does that imply that it isn't the case on i386/x86_64? I think that some way of representing the crashkernel area consistently accross all architectures is a reasonable goal. But I'm not sure of the reason for the differences. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
