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Date: Mon, 16 Dec 2002 16:53:42 -0800
From: Marcel Moolenaar <marcel@xcllnt.net>
To: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org>
Cc: Nate Lawson <nate@root.org>,
	Julian Elischer <julian@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org,
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Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/i386/i386 dump_machdep.c
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On Mon, Dec 16, 2002 at 03:19:12PM -0800, Julian Elischer wrote:
> 
> > Functionally, it is important that this check be MI.
> 
> I thought about that.
> Different architectures can have different dump sizes (theoretically)
> so only the MD code can know how much room it needs.
> For example, ia64 might decide to implement sparse dumps.

Different architectures already have different dump sizes, because
both ia64 and sparc64 have sparse memory dumps and each has overhead
to keep track of the memory chunks. ia64 uses ELF as the container,
sparc64 has something else.

So, yes; the check has to be MD.

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 Marcel Moolenaar	  USPA: A-39004		 marcel@xcllnt.net

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