The series introduces an infrastructure to define platform specific bits for page translation for PPC and PPC44x support for vmalloc translation. This is similar to what we have implemented for Crash-utility. The patches are based makedumpfile-1.4.2 + PPC32 support patches which is queued in for 1.4.3. --- Suzuki K. Poulose (4): [makedumpfile][ppc] PPC44x page translation definitions [makedumpfile][ppc] Define platform descriptors for page translation [makedumpfile][ppc] Generic vmalloc translation support [makedumpfile] Add read_string routine arch/ppc.c | 108 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-- makedumpfile.c | 14 +++++++ makedumpfile.h | 21 +++++++++++ 3 files changed, 139 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) -- Suzuki Poulose