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* why does CONFIG_NONSTATIC_KERNEL affect the boot kernel?
@ 2013-04-25 23:33 Chris Friesen
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From: Chris Friesen @ 2013-04-25 23:33 UTC (permalink / raw)
  To: linuxppc-dev, Benjamin Herrenschmidt, Paul Mackerras


Hi,

Looking at the kdump code for powerpc, I see that if 
CONFIG_NONSTATIC_KERNEL is not set then the load address for the capture 
kernel is fixed at 32MB.

Why is this?

When using a separate capture kernel I don't see why that should 
restrict where I allocate space in the boot kernel.

Chris

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