kdump: quad core Opteron

[Chandru]

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