[parisc-linux] vmlinux header for savecrash.

Grant Grundler grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com
Tue, 22 Jan 2002 19:13:18 -0700


Paul Bame wrote:
> 
> palo removes the "3/vmlinux" parameter (and the initrd= one too) before
> passing command line to the kernel which is consistent with x86 I think.
> Would it be helpful to add a kernel parameter like "palo_kernel=3/vmlinux"
> which you could then retrieve from /proc/cmdline?

Sort of. Actually, I was thinking the dump driver could use "palo_kernel"
global to save off the file name of the vmlinux which crashed.
setup_cmdline could parse/squirrel away the palo_kernel parameter.

> I know it's a pain
> to turn 3/vmlinux into /boot/vmlinux but 3/vmlinux is all palo knows.

Isn't /vmlinux a symlink to /boot/vmlinux?
ie the file palo loaded is whatever the symlink points to.

BTW, I explicitly specify /boot/vmlinux in my palo.conf files
and see 3/boot/vmlinux in my palo command line.

thanks,
grant