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Date: Sun, 17 Feb 2008 22:53:41 -0600
From: Manish Ahuja <ahuja@austin.ibm.com>
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Subject: [PATCH 0/8] pseries: phyp dump: hypervisor-assisted dump
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The following series of patches implement a basic framework
for hypervisor-assisted dump. The very first patch provides 
documentation explaining what this is  :-) . Yes, its supposed
to be an improvement over kdump.

A list of open issues / todo list is included in the documentation.
It also appears that the not-yet-released firmware versions this was tested 
on are still, ahem, incomplete; this work is also pending.

I have included most of the changes requested. Although, I did find
one or two, fixed in a later patch file rather than the first location
they appeared at.

Also it now does not block any memory on machines other than power6 boxes
which have the requisite firmware. This is from a power5 box.

from jal-lp6 a power5 machine.
.........
Phyp-dump not supported on this hardware
Using pSeries machine description
console [udbg-1] enabled
.......

I think I incorporated everyones comments so far. 


-- Manish & Linas.