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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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Subject: Re: [RFC]Kexec based crash dumping
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Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@in.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> The patches that follow contain the initial implementation for kexec based
> crash dumping that we are working on.

It seems to be coming together nicely.

Where do we stand with support for other architectures?  Do you expect that
each architecture will involve a lot of work?

And how much of the i386 implementation do you expect x86_64 can
reuse?