On Thu, Jul 27, 2006 at 12:32:56PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> 
> I have found a couple of moments and have been able to
> catch up with most of the backlog of patches for kexec-tools.
> There are several details I need to follow up on, and there is
> some testing I want to do to make certain everything is working.
> 
> The primary kexec-tools archive is:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/kexec-tools.git
> 
> An archive to hold versions before 1.101 is at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ebiederm/kexec-tools-historic.git
> 
> So far I have all version in there since 1.0 except 1.9, 1.92, and 1.93
> if someone happens to have a copy point me at it and I will update the
> history.
> 
> Patches that hang out in quilt for a while can be annoying to import
> into git because their authorship information is not stored in an
> unambiguous way.  git is general is much stricter about the format
> it's meta-data information is stored in.
> 
> Maneesh in kdump10 there were two patches in particular that I have
> not sorted out their who wrote them.  If you could help me sort that
> out I would appreciate it.
> 
> ppc64-initrd-option.patch
> ppc64-kdump-device_tree-sort.patch
> 

Both these patches are from Haren Myneni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>. 

I do have the emails for these two patches but some how his email
address didn't get captured and these were also not posted on fastboot
mailing list.


> Before I make a release here is my list of things I intend to look at:
> - Why we have defined the location of the crash backup region twice.
> - Why x86_64 arch_options is non-static.
> - Why the ppc64 purgatory code has undefined symbols.
>   Until I can see what is going on there I believe support
>   any undefined symbols in purgatory is very much the wrong thing.
> - The gcc 4.1.x warning fixes introduced a bunch of unnecessary casts
>   to squelch warnings.  Casts totally disable the type system so
>   really weird things can happen if they live in the code base too
>   long.  So I think I those casts need to be removed and another
>   solution found to shut up gcc.

Probably I got the right persons on the cc-list to respond to these
questions.

Thanks
Maneesh

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