fadump: a question about "ibm,configure-kernel-dump"

[Michael Ellerman]

Liu ping fan <kernelfans at gmail.com> writes:

> I have an ibm-p8-garrison machine. But I can not find a node
> "ibm,configure-kernel-dump" under /proc/device-tree.  Does garrison
> machine support fadump? And normally, which component in open-power
> presents the "ibm,configure-kernel-dump" ?  I had though it was in
> skiboot gitree or  garrison-xml gitree, but found nothing.

fadump only exists for guests running under PowerVM (LPARs). It sounds
like you're running bare metal (because you mention skiboot).

If you're talking about guests on top of KVM then it *could* be
implemented, but AFAIK Qemu/KVM do not implement it.

cheers