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Fix typos in CONFIG_RELOCATABLE.  Use tab + 2 spaces for indentation on all
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Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>
Cc: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>
Cc: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>
Cc: "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@xmission.com>
Cc: Haren Myneni <hbabu@us.ibm.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
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Randy Dunlap authored and Linus Torvalds committed Oct 17, 2007
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17 changes: 9 additions & 8 deletions arch/i386/Kconfig
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depends on HIGHMEM
help
Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
a specially reserved region and then later executed after
a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
PHYSICAL_START.
to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image
(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

config PHYSICAL_START
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Don't change this unless you know what you are doing.

config RELOCATABLE
bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)"
bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
This builds a kernel image that retains relocation information
so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
so it can be loaded someplace besides the default 1MB.
The relocations tend to make the kernel binary about 10% larger,
but are discarded at runtime.
but are discarded at runtime.

One use is for the kexec on panic case where the recovery kernel
must live at a different physical address than the primary
kernel.
must live at a different physical address than the primary
kernel.

config PHYSICAL_ALIGN
hex "Alignment value to which kernel should be aligned"
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bool "kernel crash dumps (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
a specially reserved region and then later executed after
a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
Generate crash dump after being started by kexec.
This should be normally only set in special crash dump kernels
which are loaded in the main kernel with kexec-tools into
a specially reserved region and then later executed after
a crash by kdump/kexec. The crash dump kernel must be compiled
to a memory address not used by the main kernel or BIOS using
PHYSICAL_START.
For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
PHYSICAL_START, or it must be built as a relocatable image
(CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y).
For more details see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt

config RELOCATABLE
bool "Build a relocatable kernel(EXPERIMENTAL)"
bool "Build a relocatable kernel (EXPERIMENTAL)"
depends on EXPERIMENTAL
help
Builds a relocatable kernel. This enables loading and running
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must live at a different physical address than the primary
kernel.

Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then kernel run from the address
it has been loaded at and compile time physical address
Note: If CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y, then the kernel runs from the address
it has been loaded at and the compile time physical address
(CONFIG_PHYSICAL_START) is ignored.

config PHYSICAL_START
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