On Fri, Jul 29, 2011 at 02:39:44PM +0200, Michael Holzheu wrote: > Hello Vivek, > > I finished the patches that add the stand-alone dump tools support on > top of the recently sent v2 patch series. The following three patches > implement the program check idea that we have discussed recently: > > [1] kdump: Add new machine_kexec_finish() architecture callback > [2] s390: Add external kdump entry point for s390 stand-alone dump tools > [3] kexec-tools: Emit program check on s390 for checksum failure Hi Michael, in general I am fine with these patches and happy to merge them although I am a little unclear about the status of the kernel side of things. Please let me know if you would like me to merge the kexec-tools patches now or wait a bit (for an updated version?). Also, if you could give me any pointers on how to obtain an s390 cross-compiling environment for x86_64 I would be most grateful.