[Crash-utility] kdump format may be updated

[Vivek Goyal]

On Fri, Oct 27, 2006 at 09:46:56AM -0400, Dave Anderson wrote:
> Magnus Damm wrote:
> 
> >
> 
> [ agree-to-agree love-fest... ]
> 
> >
> > I will contact you when I've updated and tested my code. It will take a
> > while but I guess within two weeks.
> >
> > One final question: Is it ok with you that we only use 64-bit ELF file
> > format for vmcore under Xen?
> >
> 
> That's definitely fine with me -- in fact, I much prefer that so that
> we can seamlessly handle 4G+ 32-bit dom0's.
> 
> With respect to the Red Hat kdump facility, I thought we had
> decided to unconditionally enforce the 64-bit ELF format, but
> I see that in the current kexec-ktools package that the
> /etc/sysconfig/kdump file still contains this:
> 
> ...
> # Any additional kexec arguments required.  In most situations, this should
> # be left empty
> #
> # Example:
> #   KEXEC_ARGS="--elf32-core-headers"
> KEXEC_ARGS=" --args-linux"
> ...
> 
> And the kexec-tools code still has support for --elf32-core-headers.
> 

--elf32-core-headers support has been dropped for x86_64 (atleast in 
upstream kexec-tools). i386 still carries it for the people who 
want to open core using gdb on 32bit platforms.

Thanks
Vivek