[PATCH v3 0/8] (kexec-tools) arm64: add kdump support

[Simon Horman]

On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 01:18:06AM -0700, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 29, 2016 at 09:52:00AM +0200, Simon Horman wrote:
> > On Wed, Sep 07, 2016 at 01:33:53PM +0900, AKASHI Takahiro wrote:
> > > My kernel patches of kdump suport on arm64 are currently under reviews.
> > > 
> > > This patchset is synced with them (v26 [1]) and provides necessary changes
> > > for kexec-tools. It should be applied on top of Geoff's kexec-tools patches
> > > v5[2] along with a bugfix[3].
> > > 
> > > [1] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/linux-arm-kernel/2016-September/454588.html
> > > [2] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-September/017110.html
> > > [3] http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-July/016664.html
> > 
> > Unfortunately patch 2 does not seem to apply cleanly any more.
> > Could you consider rebasing if you think this series is ready to be
> > applied?
> 
> Yes, I will as there will be some changes needed again due to the discussions
> on my kernel patch.
> 
> BTW, can you give me your opinion on my question, please?
> 
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2016-September/017119.html

I'm not particularly familiar with UEFI systems but for DT something under
chosen seems to make sense.

Regarding Mark's objections to a memmap= command line parameter.
Perhaps that could be discussed further in the context that even
though it is not particularly attractive it it being used on other
architecture(s).