From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261265AbVELDgj (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 23:36:39 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261283AbVELDgj (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 23:36:39 -0400 Received: from titan.genwebhost.com ([209.9.226.66]:42404 "EHLO titan.genwebhost.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261265AbVELDgb (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 May 2005 23:36:31 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 May 2005 20:35:58 -0700 From: randy_dunlap To: Alexander Nyberg , cherry@osdl.org Cc: ebiederm@xmission.com, vgoyal@in.ibm.com, petkov@uni-muenster.de, rddunlap@osdl.org, Ralf.Hildebrandt@charite.de, akpm@osdl.org, coywolf@gmail.com, fastboot@lists.osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [Fastboot] Fw: Re: kexec? Message-Id: <20050511203558.0dd12740.rdunlap@xenotime.net> In-Reply-To: <1115800228.917.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> References: <20050510193225.53192aad.akpm@osdl.org> <20050511030201.GA3799@in.ibm.com> <1115795427.917.10.camel@localhost.localdomain> <20050511080959.GB3799@in.ibm.com> <1115800228.917.25.camel@localhost.localdomain> Organization: YPO4 X-Mailer: Sylpheed version 1.0.4 (GTK+ 1.2.10; i686-pc-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-AntiAbuse: This header was added to track abuse, please include it with any abuse report X-AntiAbuse: Primary Hostname - titan.genwebhost.com X-AntiAbuse: Original Domain - vger.kernel.org X-AntiAbuse: Originator/Caller UID/GID - [0 0] / [47 12] X-AntiAbuse: Sender Address Domain - xenotime.net X-Source: X-Source-Args: X-Source-Dir: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi John, The kexec directory at http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/kexec/ is confusing people and hasn't been updated in ages. Please nuke it... Thanks, ~Randy On Wed, 11 May 2005 10:30:28 +0200 Alexander Nyberg wrote: | > > kexec-tools-1.101 does not contain your last patch series (that includes | > > --crashdump which is lacking from the above cmdline). Currently you need | > > to patch up 1.101 with the stuff from | > > [RFC/PATCH 5/17][kexec-tools-1.101] Add command line option | > > "--crash-dump" etc. | > > | > > It would be good having a 1.2 or something with the patches included on | > > the site... | > | > We have uploaded the kdump related user space patches which can be | > accessed at following link. | > | > http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/patches/ | > | > A single consolidated patch can be applied on top of kexec-tools-1.101.tar.gz | > to get kdump working. | | I had no idea this address existed, only when looking at my lkml-archive | i saw it posted this monday (!), prior to that I had not seen it and I | watch things quite closely. | | How is anyone gonna try it out if it isn't announced and the proper | procedure of getting it going known? Randys recent kdump.txt update made | things alot clearer but it won't help finding the right source and | patches. Although personally I'd put up a complete tarball instead of a | patch so users/testers don't have to manually patch it up. | | Also the latest kexec patches are at http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/ | nowdays and not with Randy. And there is even more confusion to it as there is: | kexec-tools-1.101.tar.gz | kexec-tools-1.99.tar.gz | | I don't know about you but if I didn't know i'd definately go with the 1.99 one | even if 1.101 is the latest version. | | Index: mm/Documentation/kdump.txt | =================================================================== | --- mm.orig/Documentation/kdump.txt 2005-05-06 08:55:43.000000000 +0200 | +++ mm/Documentation/kdump.txt 2005-05-11 10:16:38.000000000 +0200 | @@ -35,7 +35,9 @@ | SETUP | ===== | | -1) Download and build the appropriate version of kexec-tools. | +1) Download http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/kexec-tools-1.101.tar.gz | + and apply http://lse.sourceforge.net/kdump/patches/kexec-tools-1.101-kdump.patch | + and after that build the source. | | 2) Download and build the appropriate (latest) kexec/kdump (-mm) kernel | patchset and apply it to the vanilla kernel tree. | Index: mm/MAINTAINERS | =================================================================== | --- mm.orig/MAINTAINERS 2005-05-06 08:55:57.000000000 +0200 | +++ mm/MAINTAINERS 2005-05-11 10:24:35.000000000 +0200 | @@ -1339,7 +1339,6 @@ | M: ebiederm@xmission.com | M: rddunlap@osdl.org | W: http://www.xmission.com/~ebiederm/files/kexec/ | -W: http://developer.osdl.org/rddunlap/kexec/ | L: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org | L: fastboot@osdl.org | S: Maintained