On Tuesday 09 December 2008 03:24:32 Vivek Goyal wrote: > Hi Chandru, > > So this patch will solve the issue (at least for /proc/vmcore) even if > we don't make any changes on kernel side? > > Thanks > Vivek Hi Vivek, Yes, without any changes to the kernel and with this patch, we can boot into kdump kernel on these quad core Opteron machines and collect a dump. thanks, Chandru