/proc/device-tree on power6 machines has ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory node which stores in it the memory representation for most part of the system memory. This memory was earlier represented in 'memory@' nodes of the device tree. Following patch series makes kexec-tools aware of this dynamic reconfiguration memory node. These patches were sent earlier for RFC. In addition to this, a change in the kernel was also required. The kernel change has been accepted in powerpc git tree. http://git.kernel.org/?p=linux/kernel/git/paulus/powerpc.git;a=commit;h=cf00085d8045cddd80a8aabad97de96fa8131793 Some part of the patch here is re-organization of the existing code to accommodate dynamic reconf memory. Chandru