Comment 12 for bug 988512

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Louis Bouchard (louis) wrote :

@tim,

I contacted upstream about this and here is his reply :

Le 27/04/2012 00:24, Atsushi Kumagai a écrit :
> Hello Louis,
>
> On Thu, 26 Apr 2012 16:27:31 -0400
> Bouchard Louis <email address hidden> wrote:
>
>> Hello Kumagai-san,
>>
>> Do you have an idea of the availability of makedumpfile for 3.2 flavor
>> kernels ?
>>
>> Ubuntu 12.04 Precise have just been released today and, since it is
>> based on a 3.2 kernel, makedumpfile no longer works for it.
>
> Sorry, I haven't tested makedumpfile for 3.2 kernel yet, but I think it
> will work fine. If makedumpfile doesn't work in your environmental, then
> would you report it ?
>
> For your information, Suzuki reported that makedumpfile works for 3.2 kernel
> on ppc32.
>
> http://lists.infradead.org/pipermail/kexec/2012-February/006022.html
>
>
> Thanks
> Atsushi Kumagai

If you can indicate where the vmcoreinfo is being produced by makedumpfile, I can test it myself.

...Louis