Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO tokernel core dumps | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:38:56 -0600 |
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Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com> writes:
> I quickly browsed through "crash" code and looks like it is already doing > similiar check (kernel.c, verify_version()). It seems to be retrieving > "linux_banner" from core image and also retrieving banner string from vmlinux > and trying to match. So if banner information can be directly read from the > core image, probably there is no need to export it through notes.
Sounds good. We still need to define a note for the cpu control registers. Do any of the other crash dump solution capture that information right now?
Eric
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