X-Git-Url: https://git.karo-electronics.de/?a=blobdiff_plain;f=Documentation%2Fkdump%2Fkdump.txt;h=0705040531a534c2c153c1289fe0febf92926a61;hb=58eb27cd7f4f1de2932b3e0e39ea54a27e9fef43;hp=b8e52c0355d3bab81760adbf62d0c8a06a9ba52a;hpb=946e2ad040000a14b7316fae722e7e65fa09ffe5;p=mv-sheeva.git diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt index b8e52c0355d..0705040531a 100644 --- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt +++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt @@ -65,26 +65,26 @@ Install kexec-tools 2) Download the kexec-tools user-space package from the following URL: -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/kexec-tools.tar.gz -This is a symlink to the latest version, which at the time of writing is -20061214, the only release of kexec-tools-testing so far. As other versions -are released, the older ones will remain available at -http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/ +This is a symlink to the latest version. -Note: Latest kexec-tools-testing git tree is available at +The latest kexec-tools git tree is available at: -git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git +git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools.git or -http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools-testing.git;a=summary +http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/horms/kexec-tools.git + +More information about kexec-tools can be found at +http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/kernel/people/horms/kexec-tools/README.html 3) Unpack the tarball with the tar command, as follows: - tar xvpzf kexec-tools-testing.tar.gz + tar xvpzf kexec-tools.tar.gz 4) Change to the kexec-tools directory, as follows: - cd kexec-tools-testing-VERSION + cd kexec-tools-VERSION 5) Configure the package, as follows: @@ -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