[Crash-utility] using crash for ARM

[Dave Anderson]

----- Original Message -----
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> Hi,
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> I would like to use crash utility on ARM.
> what I understand is there might be two ways to go about it.
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> 1) cross compile whole crash for arm itself, which doesnt seem to be
> good option because on arm target we will need lots of depedent
> packages.
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> 2) run crash on x86 and have gdbserver/remoter server compiled on
> target. and have serial connection and so on..
> 
> please suggest instructions or any pointers regarding the same.
> 
> Regards,
> Oza.

If you are talking about running crash on a live ARM system, then
option #1 is the only possibility.  Option #2 does not exist for
the crash utility; live system access requires either /dev/mem,
/proc/kcore, or the /dev/crash misc driver.

Dave