powerpc: Support for relocatable kdump kernel

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / Documentation / kdump / kdump.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
index 9691c7f5166c1ea60acfbc383799dc5ec4dcbd21..3f4bc840da8b7c068076dd057216e846e098db9f 100644 (file)
--- 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 +109,8 @@ 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, x86_64 and ia64 architectures support relocatable kernel.
+   of today, i386, x86_64, ppc64 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
@@ -207,8 +208,15 @@ Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, i386 and x86_64)
 Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ppc64)
 ----------------------------------------------------------
 
-*  Make and install the kernel and its modules. DO NOT add this kernel
-   to the boot loader configuration files.
+1) Enable "Build a kdump crash kernel" support under "Kernel" options:
+
+   CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y
+
+2)   Enable "Build a relocatable kernel" support
+
+   CONFIG_RELOCATABLE=y
+
+   Make and install the kernel and its modules.
 
 Dump-capture kernel config options (Arch Dependent, ia64)
 ----------------------------------------------------------