On Thu, Feb 23, 2006 at 08:09:08AM +0000, Rajeev Sampige wrote:
> Hi Vivek, Maneesh
> 
> My name is Rajeev and I have a question for you on Kdump and kexec
> 
> I want to know If Kdump and kexec is  included in the standard Linux Kernel 
> and is there any API available to read ELF-based dumps?
> 
> Can you please let me know the details?
> 

Yes, they are merged with mainline linux kernel (www.kernel.org) for
i386, x86_64 and ppc64 architectures.

I am not aware of any API to read dumps, but as kdump is ELF core
format, one can use gdb or latest crash tool 
(http://people.redhat.com/~anderson/crash-4.0-2.21.tar.gz) to analyse kdump.

cc-ed to fastboot mailing list.

Thanks
Maneesh


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Maneesh Soni
Linux Technology Center, 
IBM India Software Labs,
Bangalore, India
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