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List:       osdl-fastboot
Subject:    [Fastboot] Fw: PATCH: More documentation,
From:       Vivek Goyal <vgoyal () in ! ibm ! com>
Date:       2005-09-12 9:16:21
Message-ID: 20050912090420.GA5932 () in ! ibm ! com
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Hi Andrew,

Could you please include this kdump documentation patch.

Thanks
Vivek

----- Forwarded message from SAMPATHKUMAR KISHORE KANIYAR <sampatki@india.hp.com> \
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From: SAMPATHKUMAR KISHORE KANIYAR <sampatki@india.hp.com>
Subject: PATCH: More documentation, minor cleanup in kdump.txt on 2.6.13-mm1
To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2005 14:31:15 +0530 (IST)
Cc: fastboot@lists.osdl.org
X-Mailer: ELM [2.4]

o Added clarification on the root device format to be used for second
  kernel, as well as specifying initrd if drivers are built as modules.

Signed-off-by: Kishore Sampathkumar <kishore.sampathkumar@hp.com>

diff -purN linux-2.6.13-mm1/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt \
                linux-2.6.13-devel/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
--- linux-2.6.13-mm1/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt	2005-09-08 13:12:55.000000000 \
                -0400
+++ linux-2.6.13-devel/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt	2005-09-09 09:08:12.000000000 \
-0400 @@ -66,11 +66,11 @@ SETUP
    c) Enable "/proc/vmcore support" (Optional, in Pseudo filesystems).
 	CONFIG_PROC_VMCORE=y
    d) Disable SMP support and build a UP kernel (Until it is fixed).
-   	CONFIG_SMP=n
+	CONFIG_SMP=n
    e) Enable "Local APIC support on uniprocessors".
-   	CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
+	CONFIG_X86_UP_APIC=y
    f) Enable "IO-APIC support on uniprocessors"
-   	CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
+	CONFIG_X86_UP_IOAPIC=y
 
   Note:   i) Options a) and b) depend upon "Configure standard kernel features
 	     (for small systems)" (under General setup).
@@ -95,6 +95,11 @@ SETUP
 	    hence have memory less than 4GB.
        iii) Specify "irqpoll" as command line parameter. This reduces driver
             initialization failures in second kernel due to shared interrupts.
+        iv) <root-dev> needs to be specified in a format corresponding to
+            the root device name in the output of mount command.
+         v) If you have built the drivers required to mount root file
+            system as modules in <second-kernel>, then, specify
+            --initrd=<initrd-for-second-kernel>.
 
 5) System reboots into the second kernel when a panic occurs. A module can be
    written to force the panic or "ALT-SysRq-c" can be used initiate a crash

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