From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 2 11:51: 6 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (critter.freebsd.dk [212.242.86.163]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 2A58637B47D; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 11:50:17 -0800 (PST) Received: from critter.freebsd.dk (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by critter.freebsd.dk (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g32Jnp4F020680; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 21:49:51 +0200 (CEST) (envelope-from phk@critter.freebsd.dk) To: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Cc: Robert Watson , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia64 ia64dump.c In-Reply-To: Your message of "02 Apr 2002 16:47:51 +0200." Date: Tue, 02 Apr 2002 21:49:51 +0200 Message-ID: <20679.1017776991@critter.freebsd.dk> From: Poul-Henning Kamp Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message , Dag-Erling Smorgrav writes: >Robert Watson writes: >> As long as no one expects the dump format to be static, we should have no >> problem as we migrate to desDUMP. What are the features missing from our >> older dump formats that are required -- the ability to sparsely store >> chunks of address space, etc? > >That, and the ability to save a dump written by a different kernel >than the one currently running, possibly even by a different machine. >Currently, savecore(8) uses the running kernel's idea of dumplo >etc. to locate the dump. This will also rid us of savecore's >dependency on libkvm. *Currently* savecore needs nothing but the diskpartition to pull a kernel dump from any architecture in. *Previously* it behaved as you describe, and I increasingly get the suspicion that you havn't actually looked at the code I committed at all... -- Poul-Henning Kamp | UNIX since Zilog Zeus 3.20 phk@FreeBSD.ORG | TCP/IP since RFC 956 FreeBSD committer | BSD since 4.3-tahoe Never attribute to malice what can adequately be explained by incompetence. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message