On Tue, Nov 3, 2020 at 10:15 PM Brian Murray <[email protected]>
wrote:

> Could somebody address Robie's remaining questions in comment #15?
>
>
Rovies' questions got address the same day.

Upload was made to groovy.

This kernel image has no relationship to the running OS, it is a kdump-like
kernel image, which firmware (HMC) loads whilst all processes and execution
is stopped. Thus is independent from the OS/kernel/userspace that is being
dumped.

However, the filenames in the package must be compatible with the userspace
tooling to prepare firmware to load this kernel.

Jump to v5.4 is because 4.15 will go end of life and out of support, whilst
focal one will remain. Nonetheless it is not expected that there will be
further updates to the zfcpdump kernel, the config of this kernel flavour
is tiny and doesn't have network access thus is hard to exploit, and it is
not signed for secureboot.

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Dimitri.

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