Re: [PATCH 0/2] Debian mkinitrd: Integrate kdump
On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:18 +0530, Rachita Kothiyal wrote:
> 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.
fyi, Khalid Aziz has packaged kexec-tools and will be uploading it RSN.
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