Re: kdump broken on 2.6.37-rc4

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Fri Dec 17 2010 - 14:39:37 EST


On 12/17/2010 10:21 AM, Yinghai Lu wrote:
>>>
>>> Do we have actual testing for how high the 64-bit kernel will load?
>>
>> I will do some experiments on my box today and let you know.
>
> if bzImage is used, it is 896M.
>

Why? 896 MiB is a 32-bit kernel limitation which doesn't have anything
to do with the bzImage format.

So unless there is something going on here, I suspect you're just plain
flat wrong.

-hpa
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