[Crash-utility] Heads-up re: ppc64le support in crash-7.0.8

[Petr Tesarik]

On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:19:15 -0400 (EDT)
Dave Anderson <anderson at redhat.com> wrote:

> Petr, Michel, et al,

Hi Dave et al.,

FWIW the upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 release will ship a
crash utility that works on ppc64le, and I think IBM has already tested
it successfully. I'll see how I can make the latest sources available on
a public site.

Petr Tesarik

> I'm currently working on adding ppc64le support for the next upstream
> crash release.  I'm working from a Fedora bugzilla filed by Michel Normand,
> where he that applied the "crash-gdb-7.6.series" set of patches from the openSUSE 
> distribution.  Thanks Michel for doing the initial legwork using the Fedora
> tree.
> 
> For the upstream crash utility repo, I do not want to carry the set of 9 patches
> individually, but similar to the singular gdb-7.6.patch, I plan to concatenate
> them into a singular gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch.
> 
> Ideally the contents of the 9 patch files could be added to the gdb-7.6.patch,
> and I may do that in the future.
> 
> However, just the crash-gdb-7.6-bound_minimal_symbol.patch in the 9-part set
> is so large and intrusive (touching dozens of arch-neutral files) that
> I am paranoid about breaking something, or altering behavior for the
> other architectures.  So I plan to take a more cautious route for now,
> and only apply the gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch if the build host is
> ppc64le.




> 
> Thanks,
>   Dave