Petr, Are the sources different the openSUSE patches?
Dave Sent from my Verizon Wireless 4G LTE smartphone <div>-------- Original message --------</div><div>From: Petr Tesarik <[email protected]> </div><div>Date:09/04/2014 12:27 PM (GMT-05:00) </div><div>To: Dave Anderson <[email protected]> </div><div>Cc: "Discussion list for crash utility usage, maintenance and development" <[email protected]> </div><div>Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] Heads-up re: ppc64le support in crash-7.0.8 </div><div> </div>On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:19:15 -0400 (EDT) Dave Anderson <[email protected]> wrote: > Petr, Michel, et al, Hi Dave et al., FWIW the upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 release will ship a crash utility that works on ppc64le, and I think IBM has already tested it successfully. I'll see how I can make the latest sources available on a public site. Petr Tesarik > I'm currently working on adding ppc64le support for the next upstream > crash release. I'm working from a Fedora bugzilla filed by Michel Normand, > where he that applied the "crash-gdb-7.6.series" set of patches from the > openSUSE > distribution. Thanks Michel for doing the initial legwork using the Fedora > tree. > > For the upstream crash utility repo, I do not want to carry the set of 9 > patches > individually, but similar to the singular gdb-7.6.patch, I plan to concatenate > them into a singular gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch. > > Ideally the contents of the 9 patch files could be added to the gdb-7.6.patch, > and I may do that in the future. > > However, just the crash-gdb-7.6-bound_minimal_symbol.patch in the 9-part set > is so large and intrusive (touching dozens of arch-neutral files) that > I am paranoid about breaking something, or altering behavior for the > other architectures. So I plan to take a more cautious route for now, > and only apply the gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch if the build host is > ppc64le. > > Thanks, > Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list [email protected] https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
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