[Crash-utility] kdump format may be updated

[Kazuo Moriwaka]

Hello,

From: Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com>
Subject: Re: [Crash-utility] kdump format may be updated
Date: Tue, 17 Oct 2006 09:01:32 -0400
 
> As we discussed before, it would have been preferable in my
> opinion to have the starting-point mfn value for all the domains,
> thereby making the dumpfile usable for all domains instead of
> just dom0.  But I will be happy with at least getting this change
> in place so that crash can be used directly on the xen dumpfile
> for dom0 analysis without having to run it through some other
> utility.

Yes, I remember the discussion and I think it is possible to make headers.
Now, Magnus is cleaning the patch.  He and I discussed, but I'm not
enough to convince him that dom0 information is need for crash.
I know you don't want to treat xen binary file with crash, but I'm
not clear why.  Please discuss with him directly to make up xen kdump
file formats.  The patch will be merged into xen-3.0.4.
I hope we can find solution before merge.

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Kazuo Moriwaka <moriwaka at valinux.co.jp>