From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753096Ab1HSMxl (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:53:41 -0400 Received: from mtagate1.uk.ibm.com ([194.196.100.161]:41401 "EHLO mtagate1.uk.ibm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751389Ab1HSMxi (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Aug 2011 08:53:38 -0400 Subject: Re: [patch 0/3] kdump: Add external kdump entry point for s390 stand-alone dump tools From: Michael Holzheu Reply-To: holzheu@linux.vnet.ibm.com To: Simon Horman Cc: oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp, linux-s390@vger.kernel.org, mahesh@linux.vnet.ibm.com, heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hbabu@us.ibm.com, ebiederm@xmission.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com, kexec@lists.infradead.org, vgoyal@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20110819011431.GB20747@verge.net.au> References: <20110729123944.562622201@linux.vnet.ibm.com> <20110819011431.GB20747@verge.net.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Organization: IBM Date: Fri, 19 Aug 2011 14:53:20 +0200 Message-ID: <1313758400.3858.12.camel@br98xy6r> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.32.2 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Simon, On Fri, 2011-08-19 at 10:14 +0900, Simon Horman wrote: > On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 02:39:44PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > > Hello Vivek, > > > > I finished the patches that add the stand-alone dump tools support on > > top of the recently sent v2 patch series. The following three patches > > implement the program check idea that we have discussed recently: > > > > [1] kdump: Add new machine_kexec_finish() architecture callback > > [2] s390: Add external kdump entry point for s390 stand-alone dump tools > > [3] kexec-tools: Emit program check on s390 for checksum failure > > Hi Michael, > > in general I am fine with these patches and happy to merge them That's good news. > although I am a little unclear about the status of the kernel side of > things. Please let me know if you would like me to merge the kexec-tools > patches now or wait a bit (for an updated version?). I think that we are almost done with the discussion. I will send you my current kexec-tools patches and would be glad, if you could integrate them now. >>From Monday I will be two weeks on vacation. If there are additional questions please contact Martin Schwidefsky and Heiko Carstens. > Also, if you could give me any pointers on how to obtain an s390 > cross-compiling environment for x86_64 I would be most grateful. There are debian packages for under: http://debian.speedblue.org/ Michael