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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