Date: Mon, 11 Aug 2008 14:15:57 +0200
From: Bernhard Walle <bwalle@suse.de>(by way of Bernhard Walle
	<bwalle@suse.de>)
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Subject: Re: Kdump compressed format
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To: Ken'ichi Ohmichi <oomichi@mxs.nes.nec.co.jp>

* Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-08-11 21:03]:
> Bernhard Walle wrote:
> > * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-08-05 15:21]:
> >> Bernhard Walle wrote:
> >>> is there any documentation how the kdump compressed format (or the
> >>> diskdump format, from what it is derived) looks like? Beside of the
> >>> source code of the tools that support it. ;-)
> >> The kdump compressed format is supported by only the crash utility
> >> and makedumpfile command. gdb does not support it. I think that
> >> there is not any documentation about the kdump compressed format,
> >> then I wrote it. Is it enough ?
> > 
> > Thanks a lot! Yes, that gives me the overview I needed.
> > 
> > I grabbed your information and generated a manual page from it where I
> > also want to describe the other dump formats (when I have some time
> > left):
> > 
> >    http://www.suse.de/~bwalle/kdump/
> > 
> > That's basically part of the SUSE kdump configuration, maintained in
> > http://freehg.org/u/bwalle/kdump/.
> > 
> > I just used asciidoc because I hate nroff. I hope it's ok for you to
> > distribute that manual page.
> 
> I have one question.
> On the site (http://www.suse.de/~bwalle/kdump/vmcore.5.txt), the copyright
> of SUSE is written. If the part of kdump-compressed format is written to
> the README file of makedumpfile, is it the problem ?

No, of course not, I can also change the copyright there if you want.


Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development

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