Re: [PATCH 0/2] Debian mkinitrd: Integrate kdump

[Rachita Kothiyal <rachita@in.ibm.com>]

On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:59:15AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote:
> On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:23 +0530, Rachita Kothiyal wrote:
> [...]
> > 
> > I had sent the patch to Jeff Bailey, Bastian Blank, Steve Langasek and 
> > the debian-kernel list. But have not received any comments from them so
> > far.
> > We have been considering porting this solution to the initramfs approach
> > also, but since initrd is more widely used thought it to be a better 
> > platform. When in the future do you think this switch to initramfs will
> > happen?  
> 
> Now that 2.6.13 is out (with its dropped devfs support, which
> initrd-tools requires atm), one of two things will happen; we'll either
> port initrd-tools to support non-devfs (unlikely), re-add devfs to
> 2.6.13, or switch to initramfs.  I'm going to be playing around w/ it
> soon, so I have a better idea which would be the best solution.  
> 

Thanks Andres for the info. 

kexec/kdump kernel code has been merged with 2.6 mainline since 
2.6.13-rc1. I was wondering whom shall I contact for kdump 
integration on Debian. Having initrd/initramfs support for kdump is 
just one of things needed for kdump integration. Other stuffs like 
including the user space kexec-tools with kdump support with Debian 
distribution, enabling CONFIG_KEXEC in Debian kernel, and packaging 
dump capture kernel etc.


Thanks
Rachita

PS: Putting debian-kernel again on CC.