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Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
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To: vgoyal@xxxxxxxxxx
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 07:31:26 +0000
Cc: fastboot@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx, linux-kernel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx, Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx>
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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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- [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
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- Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
  - From: Vivek Goyal
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- Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
  - From: Vivek Goyal
- Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
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- Re: [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
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