Bug#883432: Enable CRASH_DUMP for ppc64el/ppc64

2017-12-04 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Package: src:linux Followup-For: Bug #883432 Attaching proper patch on top of master. >From 98fcd489810cf181f53bd917df8dde8a8ec9c317 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo Date: Thu, 30 Nov 2017 08:39:00 -0200 Subject: [PATCH] [ppc64el,ppc64] Enable

Bug#883432: Enable CRASH_DUMP for ppc64el/ppc64

2017-12-03 Thread Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo
Source: linux Severity: wishlist Tags: patch kdump won't work on ppc64el, as CRASH_DUMP is not enabled. This has been used for IBM Power systems for a long time on other OSes, so it should be safe to enable on 64-bit PPC. Changes in kdump-tools and makedumpfile that make sense only on ppc64 are