On Mon, Jan 08, 2007 at 02:13:40PM -0700, Bill Anderson wrote: > The LKCD patch is no longer part of the SUSE kernel source. I checked > lkcd.sourceforge.net, and no patch for the current version. It appears > that kexec / kdump is now the only dump tool available for SUSE. > > Yet, the lkcdutils package is still part of the distribution. It should > really be dropped, as lcrash is no longer functional. lcrash requires a > Kerntypes file, which is no longer created during a kernel build. At > this time, lkcdutils is a totally useless package.
I believe that there is one or two remaining architectures that cannot yet use kexec+kdump, and must still use lkcdutils. I'm not sure that it is useless, perhaps just useless for you. :)
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