linux-kernel - Re: RISC-V: patched kexec-tools on github for review/testing

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Date:   Wed, 7 Sep 2022 03:23:15 +0000
From:   Yixun Lan <yixun.lan@...il.com>
To:     Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@...ux.dev>
Cc:     Nick Kossifidis <mick@....forth.gr>,
        Alexandre Ghiti <alexandre.ghiti@...onical.com>,
        ebiederm@...ssion.com, kexec@...ts.infradead.org,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org List" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Alexandre ghiti <alex@...ti.fr>,
        Mike Rapoport <rppt@...nel.org>, geert+renesas@...der.be,
        Stephano Cetola <scetola@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@...ll.eu>,
        Palmer Dabbelt <palmer@...belt.com>,
        Anup Patel <anup.patel@....com>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>
Subject: Re: RISC-V: patched kexec-tools on github for review/testing

Hi Vasily Averin:

On Tue, Sep 6, 2022 at 2:49 PM Vasily Averin <vasily.averin@...ux.dev> wrote:
>
> On 7/5/22 15:23, Nick Kossifidis wrote:
> > On 7/2/22 14:35, Yixun Lan wrote:
> >> I'd also like to try kexec on unmatched board, and encounter the same error
> >> as Alexandre Ghiti reported, generally I'm using almost same cmdline
> >
> > The kernel-side patches have already been merged upstream, for
> > kexec-tools there are some people working on fixes, I'm expecting
> > pull requests on the github before I do a pull request upstream. You
> > should be able to use kexec without initrd.
>
> Dear Nick, Yuxun,
> first of all thank you very much for your great work.
> Could you please clarify about state of makedumpfile on RISC-V?
>
Speak for myself, I haven't played with the makedumpfile tool yet
and a quick check [1], seems there is no RISC-V support so far

[1] https://github.com/makedumpfile/makedumpfile/tree/master/arch

Yixun