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Date: Fri, 16 Mar 2007 19:05:30 +0900
From: "Magnus Damm" <magnus.damm@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH 1/1] Allow i386 crash kernels to handle x86_64 dumps
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On 3/16/07, Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> wrote:
> Got a question. When running 32bit dom0 on 64bit hypervisor, which
> kexec-tools elf loader will kick in? 32bit or 64bit? Looks like in this
> case 64bit one. But shouldn't it be 32bit as 32bit OS is running and we
> must be using the kexec-tools binary compiled for 32bit OS? And if 32bit
> loader kicks in we will not be passing any acpi parameters.

There is no check to see if the hypervisor is 32 or 64 bits present
today. So the 32-bit version of kexec-tools will support loading
images like any other 32-bit kexec-tools.

Thanks,

/ magnus