On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 15:18 +0530, Rachita Kothiyal wrote: > On Tue, Aug 30, 2005 at 02:59:15AM -0400, Andres Salomon wrote: > > On Tue, 2005-08-30 at 12:23 +0530, Rachita Kothiyal wrote: > > [...] > > > > > > I had sent the patch to Jeff Bailey, Bastian Blank, Steve Langasek and > > > the debian-kernel list. But have not received any comments from them so > > > far. > > > We have been considering porting this solution to the initramfs approach > > > also, but since initrd is more widely used thought it to be a better > > > platform. When in the future do you think this switch to initramfs will > > > happen? > > > > Now that 2.6.13 is out (with its dropped devfs support, which > > initrd-tools requires atm), one of two things will happen; we'll either > > port initrd-tools to support non-devfs (unlikely), re-add devfs to > > 2.6.13, or switch to initramfs. I'm going to be playing around w/ it > > soon, so I have a better idea which would be the best solution. > > > > Thanks Andres for the info. > > kexec/kdump kernel code has been merged with 2.6 mainline since > 2.6.13-rc1. I was wondering whom shall I contact for kdump > integration on Debian. Having initrd/initramfs support for kdump is > just one of things needed for kdump integration. Other stuffs like > including the user space kexec-tools with kdump support with Debian > distribution, enabling CONFIG_KEXEC in Debian kernel, and packaging > dump capture kernel etc.
fyi, Khalid Aziz has packaged kexec-tools and will be uploading it RSN. -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact [EMAIL PROTECTED]