Re: Stable update of linux-2.6
- To: dann frazier <dannf@dannf.org>
- Cc: Ben Hutchings <ben@decadent.org.uk>, stable@kernel.org, Debian kernel maintainers <debian-kernel@lists.debian.org>, debian-release@lists.debian.org, "Adam D. Barratt" <adam@adam-barratt.org.uk>, greg@kroah.com, paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com, mikey@neuling.org, anton@samba.org, Kamalesh Babulal <kamalesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
- Subject: Re: Stable update of linux-2.6
- From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
- Date: Tue, 05 Apr 2011 08:31:52 +1000
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On Mon, 2011-04-04 at 16:10 -0600, dann frazier wrote:
> I'm just reporting this as a build-time regression in stable as it
> caused an issue when we merged recent stable updates into the Debian
> tree. I've never personally tried to configure kdump on powerpc.
>
> fwiw, a quick test shows that kexec doesn't work on my test box:
>
> dannf@macmini:~$ sudo kexec -l /boot/vmlinux-2.6.32-5-powerpc
> --append="root=/dev/hda3 ro"
> --initrd=/boot/initrd.img-2.6.32-5-powerpc
> get_memory_ranges(): Unsupported platform
> Could not get memory layout
Yes, we've never added support for kexec on macs, I suppose that
shouldn't be too hard to do tho...
Cheers,
Ben.
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