On Thu, Feb 16, 2012 at 04:44:06PM +0530, Mahesh J Salgaonkar wrote:

Please find the version 7 of the patchset that implements firmware-assisted
dump mechanism to capture kernel crash dump for Powerpc architecture.
Firmware-assisted dump is a robust mechanism to get reliable kernel crash
dump with the assistance of firmware. This approach does not use kexec,
instead firmware assists in booting the kdump kernel while preserving memory
contents.

For the series:

Reviewed-by: Paul Mackerras <redacted>

I think it's pretty much good enough to go in now.  I have one relatively
minor comment about a printk which could be addressed if you decide to
do another version of the series.

Paul.