kexec-tools/kexec-tools.changes

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Mon Oct 06 17:32:56 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- Implement -h (help) option (bnc#432386).
- Remove documentation of -o (options) option that never existed.

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Wed Aug 27 11:59:55 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- only install and build /etc/init.d/kexec with openSUSE 11.1 /
  SLES 11 and later

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Sat Aug 16 11:04:55 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- mark /etc/init.d/kexec as %config
- remove (empty) %preun

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Fri Aug 15 09:35:48 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- add /etc/init.d/kexec to be able to reboot with kexec(8)
  (FATE#302238)

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Sat Jul 19 16:54:57 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools 2.0.0 (final)
  o Allow BUILD_CFLAGS and TARGET_CFLAGS to be specified at
    configure time

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Mon Jul 14 17:32:17 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools 2.0.0-rc1
  o implement support for /sys/firmware/memmap interface
  o Allow 32 bit kexec binary to boot kdump kernel on ppc64
    architecture
  o kexec/crashdump.c: remove file descriptor leaks; make
    kdump_info argument to get_vmcoreinfo() const
  o Fix implicit declaration of inb/outb
  o EDD implementation
  o Specify the arch on kexec_unload
  o Update KEXEC_ARCH_* constants from Linux kernel headers
  o lots of code cleanup
  o Add --reuse-cmdline
  o documentation update (manpage, boot protocol)
  o ensure that extra rtas segment is a multiple of PAGE_SIZE
  o Allow building for ppc32 platforms
  o Die on early EOF in slurp_file, instead of infinite-looping
  o Fix copy-paste bug: entry16 does not start at entry16_debug
  o Fix undefined symbol errors on readw/writew: arch/io.h, not
    sys/io.h
  o extract vmcoreinfo from /proc/vmcore for Xen
  o Give installed files user-writable permission
  o Use separate CPPFLAGS and LDFLAGS for purgatory
- dropped kexec-tools-fix-arch-on-unload: merged upstream
- dropped kexec-tools-edd-fix: merged upstream
- dropped kexec-tools-refactor-architecture-detection: merged
  upstram
- dropped kexec-tools.gcc-bug.patch: merged upstream
- dropped kexec-tools.ppc32-64bit-purgatory.patch: merged upstream
- kexec-tools-edd-support: merged upstream
- kexec-tools-32bit-kexec-with-64bit-ppc64.patch: merged upstream
- removed README.SUSE: information not necessary any more

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Thu Jul  3 14:39:02 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- fix 32 bit kexec to boot on 64 bit ppc64 (bnc#405015)

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Mon May 26 23:14:15 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- fix EDD support when the BIOS-reported length is smaller than
  the sysfs raw_data size (bnc#388754)

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Mon May 26 14:15:00 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- fix kexec unload (rckdump stop) on ppc64 (bnc#394216)

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Tue May 13 15:19:58 CEST 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- implement EDD (bnc#383210)

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Mon Mar 24 23:38:05 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing v20080324
  o tarball update (version), no functional changes between
    v20080318-rc and v20080324

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Tue Mar 18 09:20:47 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing v20080318-rc
  o ia64 kern_vaddr_start was calculated incorrectly
  o ia64: make load_crashdump_segments 80col wide
  o fix i386 EFI boot using efifb
  o mipsel: mipsel port
  o fix kexec-tools on x86_64 (see bnc#368138)
  o fix valid_memory_range region merging
  o arm: invalid initialisation of iomem in get_memory_ranges()
  o arm: use proc_iomem()
  o no machine machine to proc_iomem()

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Fri Mar 14 17:30:53 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing v20080227-git
  (current git snapshot, fixes x86_64, bnc#368138)
- kexec-tools-portability-issue deleted: mainline

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Wed Feb 27 08:09:08 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing v20080227
  (only increased version number)

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Tue Feb 26 08:58:47 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing v20080226-rc
  o build: include configure and include/config.h.in in dist
    tarball
- adjusted kexec-tools-portability-issue to build without warnings
  on 32 bit systems

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Thu Feb 21 10:55:57 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing v20080221-rc
  o Only include needed files in distribution tarball
  o Clean up whitespace in include/x86/x86-linux.h
  o Kexec command line length
- removed kexec-longer-cmdline.diff: fixed mainline differently

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Wed Feb 20 08:30:37 CET 2008 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing v20080219-rc
  o Fix the feature determining ELF32/ELF64 automatically
  o Enable building a 32 bit binary for ppc64 platforms.
  o Consolidate BOOTLOADER defines
  o Use config.h for defines
  o Add gamecube to config.h defines
  o removed partially duplicated system headers
  o Use general _SRCS and _OBJS, rather and _C_{SRCS, OBJS} and
    _S_{SRCS, OBJS}
  o build system fixes
  o Add documentation on creating include/config.h.in to INSTALL
  o Log unknown reloc name instead of its number
  o Use zlib if present
  o kexec buffer overflow on ppc platform
  o sh: Remove hardcoded PAGE_SIZE in NetBSD loader
  o Add ARM support to kexec
  o Remove some extraneous whitespace
  o kexec: Use target linker for purgatory
- removed kexec-tools-elf32-elf64-fix: mainline
- removed kexec-tools.ppc64-32bit-build.patch: mainline
- removed kexec-tools.fread-buffer-overflow.patch: mainline

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Wed Jan 30 15:17:18 CET 2008 - sassmann@suse.de

- fix fread buffer overflow on ppc

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Tue Jan 22 10:14:31 CET 2008 - ro@suse.de

- update ppc buildreq

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Fri Nov 30 10:52:03 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- fix a problem with automatic determination of ELF32/ELF64 on i386

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Tue Oct 30 08:46:49 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing 20071030
  o vmcoreinfo's address and size

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Wed Oct 17 08:35:24 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing v20071017-rc
  o Set alternate location for /proc/iomem on ia64 xen
  o debugging output improvements
  o Handle malloc() failure in xen_get_nr_phys_cpus()
  o Added generic --reuseinitrd option
  o ppc64: fix device-tree mem node
  o ppc64: fix misaligned cmdline
  o ppc64: cleanup get_devtree_details
  o ppc64: Add arch specific --reuseinitrd hooks
  o ppc64: use kernels slave loop for purgatory
  o ppc64: correct @ha relocation
- remove kexec-tools.check_reuse_initrd-close.patch (merged
  mainline)

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Thu Oct 11 16:48:58 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- remove kdump stuff from this package, that's now in the "kexec"
  package

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Wed Aug 29 15:23:58 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- add reset_devices kernel parameter as default

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Sat Aug 25 22:37:42 CEST 2007 - olh@suse.de

- do not require kdump-helpers on s390

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Fri Jul 27 14:56:14 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- update documentation for deleting all dumps (#302257)

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Tue Jul 17 07:25:19 CEST 2007 - olh@suse.de

- workaround gcc code analyzing bug

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Mon Jul 16 15:33:22 CEST 2007 - olh@suse.de

- update to kexec-tools-testing b84b87747a16f0afbef6f6802bb794a94f4961d9
  build 32bit powerpc kexec binary for 64bit kernels

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Fri Jul  6 18:24:12 CEST 2007 - tiwai@suse.de

- implement a simple status command for kdump init script

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Tue Jul  3 00:00:18 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- removed 'machvec=dig' workaround from the documentation since
  this has been fixed in the kernel (#271158)

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Fri Jun 22 16:55:27 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- disable -fstack-protector on IA64 since the kdump kernel doesn't
  boot with -fstack-protector enabled

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Thu Jun 21 16:27:33 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- kdump init script: fix handling of spaces in kernel type

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Wed Jun 13 16:51:53 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- remove KDUMP_KERNELVER="kdump" on x86_64 and i386 since there's
  no special "kdump" kernel any more in the default configuration
  (i.e. in the .spec file since it's different for the
  architectures)

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Wed Jun 13 15:21:27 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- removed libelf as BuildRequires

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Mon Jun 11 17:06:07 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- moved copying of dump file to an external package
  "kdump-helpers"
- moved kdump-helper which is needed to save dump in initrd
  also to kdump-helpers package

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Tue Apr 24 17:08:20 CEST 2007 - olh@suse.de

- update to current kexec-tools-testing
  add PS3 patches

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Thu Apr 19 10:55:31 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- fixes in kdump-helper (update to 0.1.2):
  o retrieve the disk size before mmap()
  o return GENERAL_ERROR if the program cannot be opened
  o use symbolic constants for exit values instead of magic numbers
    now consistently
  o check for correct return value of mmap() instead of NULL

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Fri Apr 13 13:55:45 CEST 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- improved documentation of KDUMP_DUMPDEV (#264050)

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Mon Apr  2 12:24:46 CEST 2007 - rguenther@suse.de

- add zlib-devel BuildRequires

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Tue Mar 20 20:39:13 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- fixed script to properly unload kdump on IA64 (where kdump
  kernel is the normal kernel) (#256179)

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Mon Mar 19 10:58:10 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- upgrade to latest snapshot
  o [IA64] Use EFI_LOADER_DATA for ELF core header (-> needed
    because kernel was updated to 2.6.21 on STABLE)
  o include latest fixes

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Wed Mar 14 18:45:27 CET 2007 - tiwai@suse.de

- add detailed description about dump triggering methods to
  README.SUSE (#250134)

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Wed Mar 14 15:18:06 CET 2007 - tiwai@suse.de

- improve the check of crash kernel in kdump init script (#252632)

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Fri Mar  9 21:34:36 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- added hint that VGA console doesn't work (#253173)

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Thu Feb 15 13:44:01 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- added setting to print the kdump command line to standard output
- small improvement for the outut message while dumping: last
  message always prints 100% if it was sucessful

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Wed Feb 14 17:16:33 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- added KDUMP_VERBOSE option to print progress output while
  dumping and to add the kexec call to system log
- added maxcpus=1 as default for KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND on IA64
- added --noio as default for KEXEC_OPTIONS on IA64

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Tue Feb 13 18:38:52 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- align the both start and end address of the ELF core header
  to EFI_PAGE_SIZE (4096) to fix wrong EFI memory maps
  (#214865)

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Mon Feb 12 10:57:38 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- fixed copying, blocksize was wrong (#243058)

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Sat Feb 10 10:49:31 CET 2007 - schwab@suse.de

- Fix help string.

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Fri Feb  9 13:34:41 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- fixed overflow error that prints the size from being printed
  correctly if the size doesn't fit into an int (#243058)
- improved error handling to make sure that a similar problem as
  in #243058 will output a better error message

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Wed Feb  7 15:42:35 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- don't refuse to deinstall kexec-tools if kdump was not configured
  (#243081)
- fixed documentation error (/var/log/dump instead of
  /var/log/dumps in README.SUSE)
  (#239506)

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Mon Feb  5 12:38:11 CET 2007 - tiwai@suse.de

- updated to kexec-tools 2007.02.05:
  * including last fixes
  * fix for ppc64 dynamic memory range allocation (#242075)

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Fri Feb  2 16:46:35 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- fixes overflow on large IA64 systems (#241544)
- added KDUMP_COMMANDLINE_APPEND variable (#241607)
- increase the command line size (#236828)

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Mon Jan 29 15:41:43 CET 2007 - olh@suse.de

- do not unload kdump kernel during runlevel changes (#238733)

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Thu Jan 25 19:28:57 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- added documentation for initrd-based kdump saving
- fixed description of KDUMP_IMMEDIATE_REBOOT

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Wed Jan 24 12:04:55 CET 2007 - tiwai@suse.de

- fix invalid /proc/vmcore on ppc64 (#238078).

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Thu Jan 18 15:22:25 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- improved documentation as response to #226736

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Wed Jan 17 14:32:02 CET 2007 - bwalle@suse.de

- implemented Initrd based kdump saving
  (#301538)

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Wed Dec 20 10:59:26 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- take kexec-tools-testing snapshot-20061219.
  o ia64 support
  o relocatable kernel support
  o lots of cleanups/fixes
- fix manpage and help about -u option (#208710)
- ia64 kdump support (#214865, FATE#301433, FATE#301434)
  o add boot argument "CRASH=1" to indicate the crash environment
    (for kexec'ing with the same kernel)
  o fix kdump init script for ia64, which has only vmlinuz and
    uses the same kernel for kdump
- reduce boot options for kdump kernel (#223500)

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Thu Jul 13 17:39:20 CEST 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- fixed the calculation of required disk space in kdump
  init script (#192172)
- fix the wrong usage of crash program in README.SUSE

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Thu Jun 22 15:23:22 CEST 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- fix kexec to reserve ACPI NVS area (#179093)
- add more description about chkconfig and kdump service
  (#183017)

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Fri Jun 16 12:24:03 CEST 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- add irqpoll boot option for i386 and x86_64 for more robust
  kdump (#183017)

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Thu Jun  1 18:07:35 CEST 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- update README.SUSE for more precise description about crash
  and debug kernel.

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Tue May 30 16:03:26 CEST 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- ppc64 kdump ELF header fix for power 4 box (#175128).

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Mon May 22 12:49:01 CEST 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- added the missing man page for kexec (#175084).
- add sleep after reboot in kdump init script for avoiding
  confliction with script single (#171332)

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Fri May 19 14:56:15 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de

- unconditionally add sysrq=1 for kdump boots, nothing to lose

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Fri May 19 13:57:15 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de

- remove crashkernel= cmdline also if only the size is given
  handle m as well as M because memparse() handles both

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Tue May  2 16:18:57 CEST 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- update/improve README.SUSE
- fix the default value in sysconfig.kdump
- add elevator=deadline to the boot parameter of kdump kernel
  to save memory footprint (#170591)

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Fri Apr 28 21:07:49 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de

- use df -P to print all data for a mount point in a single line
  long device node names will cause 2 lines in df output

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Wed Apr 26 13:42:38 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de

- linux,platform properties were removed from kernel 2.6.17
  assume non-LPAR if some properties do no exist in the device-tree
  (164993 - LTC23056)

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Wed Apr 26 11:47:10 CEST 2006 - olh@suse.de

- set /proc/sys/kernel/panic_on_oops to actually trigger a dump

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Wed Mar  8 23:10:24 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de

- add --args-linux only on intel
  copy vmcore with --sparse, maybe it saves a few bytes.

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Wed Feb 22 16:53:23 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- updated to kdump7 patch.

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Wed Feb 15 11:23:45 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- fixed gdb-kdump script (#151001)

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Mon Feb 13 15:09:58 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- fix for ppc64 (#149576)

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Sun Feb 12 17:58:43 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- added the system check before dumping
- added README.SUSE
- added gdb-kdump helper script

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Thu Feb  9 11:16:35 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- fixed Default-Start in kdump init script.
- fixed RequiredStart in sysconfig/kdump.

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Wed Feb  8 21:57:43 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- changed the default values of KDUMP_IMMEDIATE_REBOOT and
  KDUMP_RUNLEVEL (#149140).

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Tue Feb  7 13:16:25 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- added missing preun and postun sections.

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Mon Feb  6 15:22:32 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- fixed the messages from kdump to use suse rc macros
- added $KDUMP_RUNLEVEL to /etc/sysconfig/kdump for specifying
  the runlevel to boot kdump kernel.
- added /sbin/rckdump
- fixed a typo in kdump init script

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Fri Feb  3 16:20:13 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- sync with mainstream dump6 patch:
  most of ppc64 patches were merged there.
  new fixes included: vmcore copy fix for x86_64 and ext_mem_k
  calculation fix for i386
- added KEXEC_TRANSFER sysconfig variable for user-defined
  dump action.

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Fri Jan 27 12:13:59 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- added kdump init script and sysconfig.

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Wed Jan 25 21:37:11 CET 2006 - mls@suse.de

- converted neededforbuild to BuildRequires

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Mon Jan 23 15:02:24 CET 2006 - olh@suse.de

- update ppc64 kdump support

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Thu Jan  5 16:37:12 CET 2006 - tiwai@suse.de

- more fix for ppc64 kdump
- fix malloc size

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Thu Dec 15 16:09:27 CET 2005 - tiwai@suse.de

- use the latest kdump patch.

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Mon Dec 12 14:46:46 CET 2005 - tiwai@suse.de

- initial version: 1.101