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makedumpfile package

  1. Bug #1676884
  2. Comment #7

Comment 7 for bug 1676884

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bugproxy (bugproxy) wrote : Comment bridged from LTC Bugzilla

------- Comment From <email address hidden> 2017-11-17 03:10 EDT-------
(In reply to comment #16)
> Noticed that the offset for crashkernel is set to 32MB in
> /etc/default/grub.d/kdump-tools..ppc64el file . Any specific reason
> why this value is chosen? With the default offset on powerpc being
> 128MB, this seems way off (considering there is only so much real
> memory available.) Can the offset (@32M) be stripped from
> /etc/default/grub.d/kdump-tools..ppc64el file to fall back to the
> kernel default..

The above concern seems to be addressed with the patch attached in bug 1658733.
I would rather prefer no offset though (letting the kernel to decide on the default offset)

btw, it is targeted for artful. Would that make it into 17.04 as well?

Thanks
Hari