On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 08:35:18AM -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > On Thu, Jun 26, 2008 at 10:28:03AM +0200, Bernhard Walle wrote: > > * Andrew Morton [2008-06-26 01:23]: > > > > > > > > config PROC_VMCORE > > > > bool "/proc/vmcore support (EXPERIMENTAL)" > > > > - depends on PROC_FS && EXPERIMENTAL && CRASH_DUMP > > > > + depends on PROC_FS && CRASH_DUMP > > > > default y > > > > help > > > > Exports the dump image of crashed kernel in ELF format. > > > > > > What about powerpc, sh and ia64? > > > > At least for ia64 I wouldn't consider it as experimental. Don't know > > about SH and PPC. But should we mark it as EXPERIMENTAL on all > > platforms only because some "exotic" (at least SH) platforms have kdump > > not very long implemented? > > It has been present long enough on ia64 and ppc64. Only new entry seems > to be SH. I would think of leaving it EXPERIMENTAL only on SH. > Yes, kdump should remain EXPERIMENTAL on SH for the time being. It's only been tested on a tiny subset of CPUs, and will need additional work for the rest (as with kexec for that matter).
