Bug#629627: linux-2.6: please support kdump (enable CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y?)
Package: linux-2.6
Version: 2.6.32-34squeeze1
Severity: wishlist
kexec, kdump and crash are pretty powerful debugging tools. It would be
nice if debian kernels supported kdump fully. If I read
/usr/share/doc/kdump-tools/README.Debian correctly this would involve
enabling CONFIG_CRASH_DUMP=y.
I could not find discussion on why this is not done. Are there any
serious drawbacks? If there are, I'm fine with having to build my own
kernels but lets document the problems somewhere please :-)
-- System Information:
Debian Release: 6.0.1
APT prefers stable
APT policy: (500, 'stable')
Architecture: amd64 (x86_64)
Kernel: Linux 2.6.32-5-amd64 (SMP w/4 CPU cores)
Locale: LANG=C, LC_CTYPE=en_US.UTF-8 (charmap=UTF-8)
Shell: /bin/sh linked to /bin/dash
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