From: Don Zickus on gitlab.com https://gitlab.com/cki-project/kernel-ark/-/merge_requests/1171#note_6178041...
Good to see this patch always evolving. :-) The current approach is nice because we don't carry an out of tree patch no more as @jmflinuxtx said. I still wish the memory reqs would come down (I know dracut/systemd make it hard). I remember using 32M for rhel-8 testing I think. This would lower the resistance to enabling this more often.
On a side positive side note. From a CI perspective, one of the struggle with using test frameworks with kernel testing is kernel panics. Beaker allows us console access, which is a side channel thing and not the norm. Using kdump and saving dmesg logs on panics, allows tools to easily get at stack traces when a unexpected reboot happens. Not a perfect solution, but something useful when console access isn't always around (or ipmi).
Thanks for this continued effort!