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To:     Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
        Baoquan He <bhe@redhat.com>
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On 10/14/22 11:29 AM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 13, 2022 at 06:46:35PM +0800, Baoquan He wrote:
>> On 10/06/22 at 09:55am, john.p.donnelly@oracle.com wrote:
>>> What is the progress of this series ?
>>>
>>> Without this patch set we are seeing  larger crashkernel=896M failures on
>>> Arm  with Linux-6.0.rc7.  This larger value is needed for
>>> iSCSI booted systems with certain network adapters.
>>
>> This change is located in arch/arm64 folder, I have pinged arm64
>> maintainer to consider merging this patchset. Not sure if they are
>> still thinking, or ignore this.
>>
>> Hi Catalin, Will,
>>
>> Ping again!
>>
>> Do you have plan to accept this patchset? It's very important for
>> crashkernel setting on arm64 with a simple and default syntax.
> 
> I'll look at it once the merging window closes. I saw discussions on
> this thread and I ignored it until you all agreed ;).
> 


Hi,

Do you have a timeline for this ?  This crashkernel > 4G for Arm item 
has been lingering for 3 years. I think it is time for it to be 
incorporated.


Thanks,

John.