[ANNOUNCE] kexec-tools 2.0.12-rc1

[Freeman Zhang]

On 03/14/2016 08:37 AM, Simon Horman wrote:
> Hi all,
>
> I am happy to announce the release of kexec-tools 2.0.12-rc1.
>
> This is an incremental feature pre-release.
>
> So long as no serious problems arise I intend to release kexec-tools 2.0.12
> in a weeks time. Testing of 2.0.12-rc1 would be greatly appreciated.
>
> I do not have any outstanding changes for 2.0.12 at this time.
> And I would like to only accept bug fixes at this time and take take
> features patches once 2.0.12 has been released.
>
> The pre-release can be downloaded from kernel.org:
>
> 	https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools-2.0.12-rc1.tar.xz
> 	https://kernel.org/pub/linux/utils/kernel/kexec/
>
> I have also tagged it in git:
>
> 	https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/utils/kernel/kexec/kexec-tools.git
>
> Thanks to everyone who has contributed to kexec.
>
>
> For reference the changes since v2.0.11 are:
>
> 93d3a61783ec kexec-tools 2.0.12-rc1
> 7c53754e5da8 kexec/fs2dt.c: wrong dt node fix
> 61cfab4e2ce0 vmcore-dmesg: Collect full dmesg regardless of logged_chars
> 35cb8a0761a0 ppc64: Add a flag to tell the kernel it's booting from kexec
> eff306e8914c Revert "crashdump/x86: Add option to get crash kernel region size"
> 8a1aa35a1077 crashdump/x86: Add option to get crash kernel region size
> 6ba9e97c5b5f x86: Make sure E820_PM[AE]M are defined if needed
> 56a12abc1df1 kexec: fix mmap return code handling
> 0e1030b345b9 Improve device tree directory sorting
> 4bad06c3cd2a arm: use /sys/firmware/fdt in case without --atags and --dtb
> 4580c372000b kexec/fs2dt: check for /chosen/stdout-path first
> 68262155d8c6 kexec/fs2dt: cleanup pathname
> 65a15228b570 kexec/fs2dt: s/diabled/disabled/
> e0e7a11783c1 kexex: arm: create ATAGS_MEM tag from devicetree memory node
> 084ed28061e1 uImage: fix pointer-sign warning
> bc1d49d51dd1 kexec: determine size of block device
> 95741713e790 kexec/s390x: use mmap instead of read for slurp_file()
> 8d8c6bcee593 kexec-tools 2.0.12.git
>
>

Hi Simon!

I am confused about this: I got 'kexec/arch/ppc64/include/arch/ftb.h'  
in the directory cloned with git, while 'ftb.h' is absent in the 
corresponding directory decompressed from the tar.gz you provided above.

All the best!
Freeman