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 0705040531a534c2c153c1289fe0febf92926a61..3f4bc840da8b7c068076dd057216e846e098db9f 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
+++ b/Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt
@@ -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)
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-*  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)
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