From owner-cvs-all Tue Apr 2 6:49:21 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 48EDA37B4AF; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 06:47:56 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id B33315346; Tue, 2 Apr 2002 16:47:51 +0200 (CEST) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Robert Watson Cc: Poul-Henning Kamp , Marcel Moolenaar , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/ia64/ia64 ia64dump.c References: From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 02 Apr 2002 16:47:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: Lines: 15 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii 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 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. DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message