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Date: Wed, 26 Nov 1997 18:47:11 +1030
From: Greg Lehey <grog@lemis.com>
To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Cc: emulation@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject: Re: kdump for linux binaries available
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On Wed, Nov 26, 1997 at 06:22:05PM +1030, Mike Smith wrote:
>
> I've just committed this:
>
> msmith      1997/11/25 23:49:36 PST
>
>   ports/devel/linux_kdump - Imported sources
>   Update of /home/ncvs/ports/devel/linux_kdump
>   In directory freefall.freebsd.org:/d/msmith/linux_kdump

Great stuff.  Was it difficult?

>   Log Message:
>   This is a modified version of the standard FreeBSD kdump(1) utility
>   that understands Linux syscalls and ioctls instead of FreeBSD ones.
>
> If you have the ports collection set up locally, you should be able to
> build this as soon as it appears.  Note that it needs the FreeBSD
> sources (userland and kernel) as well as the linux_devel stuff
> installed.
>
> I am hopeful that a package will be available soon to make it less of a
> challenge to build.  I can supply binaries on request.

Where's the challenge?

Asking you what
Grog