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Date:      Wed, 03 Apr 2002 07:09:18 +0200
From:      Poul-Henning Kamp <phk@critter.freebsd.dk>
To:        obrien@FreeBSD.org
Cc:        Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>, Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>, Robert Watson <rwatson@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia64 ia64dump.c 
Message-ID:  <25183.1017810558@critter.freebsd.dk>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 02 Apr 2002 17:20:09 -0800." <20020402172009.A3970@dragon.nuxi.com> 

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In message <20020402172009.A3970@dragon.nuxi.com>, "David O'Brien" writes:
>On Tue, Apr 02, 2002 at 04:32:00PM -0800, Marcel Moolenaar wrote:
>> 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:
>
>You can also get this information from the ELF header itself.

Right, but I think that having savecore react to finding an elf-header
on the diskpartition is a tad too weak.

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