Re: [PATCH] x86: Fix documentation bug about relocatability

From: Simon Horman
Date: Tue Jul 01 2008 - 08:06:25 EST


On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 09:55:18PM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote:
> This patch fixes a small bug in documentation: x86_64 also has now
> the ability to build a relocatable kernel.
>
>
> Signed-off-by: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@xxxxxxx>

Acked-by: mon Horman <horms@xxxxxxxxxxxx>

> ---
> Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt | 2 +-
> 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> index b8e52c0..9691c7f 100644
> --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
> @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ There are two possible methods of using Kdump.
> 2) Or use the system kernel binary itself as dump-capture kernel and there is
> no need to build a separate dump-capture kernel. This is possible
> only with the architecutres which support a relocatable kernel. As
> - of today i386 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel.
> + of today, i386, x86_64 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel.
>
> Building a relocatable kernel is advantageous from the point of view that
> one does not have to build a second kernel for capturing the dump. But
> --
> 1.5.6
>
>
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