------- Comment From thiag...@br.ibm.com 2017-05-12 12:10 EDT------- (In reply to comment #7) > Now if both are interchangeable (I must admit my ignorance of this > architecture), I don't mind fixing the script to apply to both EL and LE.
Yes, they are equivalent. My understanding is that everyone calls it ppc64le except Debian, who decided to call it ppc64el to keep consistency with mipsel. -- You received this bug notification because you are a member of Kernel Packages, which is subscribed to makedumpfile in Ubuntu. https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1676884 Title: kdump-tools uses the wrong crashkernel command line parameter in ppc64le Status in The Ubuntu-power-systems project: New Status in makedumpfile package in Ubuntu: New Bug description: == Comment: #0 - Thiago Jung Bauermann <thiag...@br.ibm.com> - 2017-03-24 11:44:39 == ---Problem Description--- kdump-tools uses the wrong crashkernel command line parameter in ppc64le: u1704le?? grep crashkernel /boot/grub/grub.cfg linux /boot/vmlinux-4.10.0-13-generic root=UUID=2d6f73c7-b463-4f02-9ec4-8d4afed0635d ro crashkernel=384M-:128M 128M of reserved memory is too small for ppc64le. That happens because /etc/default/grub.d/kdump-tools.cfg links to the wrong file: u1704le?? ls -l /etc/default/grub.d/ total 8.0K lrwxrwxrwx 1 root root 39 Mar 24 13:34 kdump-tools.cfg -> /etc/default/grub.d/kdump-tools.default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 80 Jan 5 08:07 kdump-tools.default -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 137 Jan 5 08:07 kdump-tools..ppc64el u1704le?? As can be seen, it should be pointing to kdump-tools..ppc64el but isn't. Also, kdump-tools..ppc64el has two dots in it. That doesn't seem right. Possibly just a cosmetic issue, but it would be nice if that was fixed. Contact Information = thiag...@br.ibm.com ---uname output--- Linux u1704le 4.10.0-13-generic #15-Ubuntu SMP Thu Mar 9 20:27:28 UTC 2017 ppc64le ppc64le ppc64le GNU/Linux Machine Type = Any ppc64le machine. In this case, a KVM guest hosted on an 8286-42A. ---Debugger--- A debugger is not configured ---Steps to Reproduce--- sudo apt intall kdump-tools Select 'Yes' when asked whether kdump should be enabled. Userspace tool common name: kdump The userspace tool has the following bit modes: 64 bit Userspace rpm: kdump-tools Userspace tool obtained from project website: na *Additional Instructions for thiag...@br.ibm.com: -Attach ltrace and strace of userspace application. To manage notifications about this bug go to: https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu-power-systems/+bug/1676884/+subscriptions -- Mailing list: https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages Post to : kernel-packages@lists.launchpad.net Unsubscribe : https://launchpad.net/~kernel-packages More help : https://help.launchpad.net/ListHelp
