Comment 21 for bug 2024479

Hi Steve,

Thanks for reviewing!

> Is this driven by user demand on focal?

Yes, this is driven by a support case from Azure
(kdump error on Arm64 VM w/ 48 vCPUs 192 GiB RAM).

> Was this a problem in practice when focal was released,
> or has it become a problem more recently <snip>

It seems that support for arm64 on Azure started on 2022,
~2 years after Focal release, as the first arm64 build of
the linux-azure kernel package is 5.4.0-1075.78 (Apr 2022).

https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/focal/+source/linux-azure
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-azure/5.4.0-1074.77 (amd64 only)
https://launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-azure/5.4.0-1075.78 (amd64 and arm64)

> I want to make sure we're not just SRUing it here in an effort to be "completionist".

That's certainly understandable.

In this case, no; the patches are down to Focal as that
is the release where the bug/support case were reported,
and would ideally be fixed on, if at all possible.

Hope this helps.
Thanks!