Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/10] fadump: Firmware-assisted dump support for Powerpc.

2012-02-14 Thread Paul Mackerras
On Sat, Dec 10, 2011 at 12:19:59PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote: > The most of the code implementation has been adapted from phyp assisted dump > implementation written by Linas Vepstas and Manish Ahuja. When you repost the series, please be explicit about what the relationship between the ne

[RFC PATCH v6 00/10] fadump: Firmware-assisted dump support for Powerpc.

2011-12-09 Thread Mahesh J Salgaonkar
Hi All, Please find the version 6 of the patchset that implements firmware-assisted dump mechanism to capture kernel crash dump for Powerpc architecture. The firmware-assisted dump is a robust mechanism to get reliable kernel crash dump with assistance from firmware. This approach does not use kex