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Date: Wed, 22 Jun 2005 16:32:56 -0700
From: Chris Wright <chrisw@osdl.org>
To: Carsten Otte <cotte.de@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, Jeff Garzik <jgarzik@pobox.com>,
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Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status
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* Carsten Otte (cotte.de@gmail.com) wrote:
> On 6/21/05, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> wrote:
> > > and indeed vendors ARE shipping
> > > other crashdump methods.
> > 
> > Which ones?
> For 390, we ship standalone bootable crashdump tools with both sles
> and rhel. As for kexec, I'd like to see a kexec based 390 bootloader
> in the future which would be more flexible then our current one. So
> I'd like to vote for merging kexec/kdump.

Xen is making similar noises w.r.t. using kexec for flexible bootloader.

thanks,
-chris