Question about forcing kernel panic on PowerMac G5 by kexec command

[gib]

Hi Mohan,

> Is there any node called "ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory" in the 
> device tree?
There is no any node called "ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory" in my
PowerMac G5.
What is the mentioned node (ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory) responsible
for?

Regards,
Suchada

-----Original Message-----
From: Mohan Kumar M [mailto:mohan at in.ibm.com] 
Sent: Friday, May 23, 2008 6:05 PM
To: gib
Cc: kexec at lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: Question about forcing kernel panic on PowerMac G5 by kexec
command

Mohan Kumar M wrote:
> gib wrote:
>> Hi Mohan,
>>
>>> Do you have only one entry for memory node in the /proc/device-tree
>> directory?
>> Yes, I have only one entry(for memory) in the /proc/device-tree
directory.
>>
>>> Do you know last good working version of kernel (for kdump) and try to 
>>> boot into that kernel and check the memory nodes in device-tree?
>> What is the last version of kernel for kdump which you mentioned?
>> (now I using the vanilla kernel 2.6.25 version)
> 
> Hi Suchada,
> 
> Sorry, I don't have information related to G5 and kexec/kdump. Still I 
> am not sure why the device tree is exporting only one memory node.

Hi Suchada,

Is there any node called "ibm,dynamic-reconfiguration-memory" in the 
device tree?

Regards,
Mohan.