James Bottomley (on Fri, 13 Oct 2006 08:55:35 -0500) wrote: >On Fri, 2006-10-13 at 23:25 +1000, Keith Owens wrote: >> Note 2: This patch does not cover i386 voyager. I do not understand >> the voyager interrupt mechanism well enough to define its >> interrupt handlers (hint, hint). > >Voyager actually doesn't need a software based crash dump at all.
This API is designed for any kernel debug tool, not just crash dump. This includes run time debuggers such as kdb, kgdb and nlkd. >The system itself has a type of GSP that runs SUS (sort of a bios) >continuously. SUS will dump a complete memory and state image to a >nominated dump slice (usually swap) if the OS becomes unresponsive or >requests it. So all I really have to do is come up with a user space >tool that converts from this raw image format to your crash tool format. Not my crash format, other people maintain the crash dump tools. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
