From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 2 16:32:16 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from kayak.xcllnt.net (209-128-86-226.bayarea.net [209.128.86.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id DBD5F37B42A; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:32:04 -0800 (PST) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net [192.168.4.201]) by kayak.xcllnt.net (8.11.6/8.11.4) with ESMTP id g330Vxb30005; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:31:59 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@kayak.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: from dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.2/8.12.2) with ESMTP id g330W1Q9000363; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:32:01 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from marcel@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net) Received: (from marcel@localhost) by dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net (8.12.2/8.12.2/Submit) id g330W0VS000362; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:32:00 -0800 (PST) Date: Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:32:00 -0800 From: Marcel Moolenaar To: Poul-Henning Kamp Cc: Dag-Erling Smorgrav , Robert Watson , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia64 ia64dump.c Message-ID: <20020403003200.GB315@dhcp01.pn.xcllnt.net> References: <34442.1017781370@critter.freebsd.dk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <34442.1017781370@critter.freebsd.dk> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i 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 On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 11:02:50PM +0200, Poul-Henning Kamp wrote: > > The format of the header is not architecture dependent, it is the > same 512 bytes of the same exact layout on all architectures. Correct. The endianness is trivially solved: \begin{patch} Index: kerneldump.h =================================================================== RCS file: /home/ncvs/src/sys/sys/kerneldump.h,v retrieving revision 1.1 diff -u -r1.1 kerneldump.h --- kerneldump.h 31 Mar 2002 21:48:08 -0000 1.1 +++ kerneldump.h 3 Apr 2002 00:28:23 -0000 @@ -39,8 +39,11 @@ #define _SYS_KERNELDUMP_H struct kerneldumpheader { - char magic[20]; + char magic[19]; # define KERNELDUMPMAGIC "FreeBSD Kernel Dump" + char endianness; +# define KERNELDUMP_BIG_ENDIAN '>' +# define KERNELDUMP_LITTLE_ENDIAN '<' char architecture[12]; uint32_t version; # define KERNELDUMPVERSION 1 \end{patch} I did not think about it much, nor tested it, but if it's not already in its final form than it's pretty descriptive :-) -- Marcel Moolenaar USPA: A-39004 marcel@xcllnt.net To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message