Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps

From: Ian Campbell
Date: Fri Mar 16 2007 - 03:31:45 EST


On Fri, 2007-03-16 at 08:12 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> I did not investigate deeper but I got a basic question. How will kexec
> know that underlying 32bit machine supports 64bit extensions or not?

It looks like /proc/cpuinfo flags contains "lm" (which is long mode,
right?) even if the machine is running 32 bit mode.

Ian.

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