Matt Robinson wrote:
> On Wed, 24 Nov 1999, Keith Owens wrote:
> |>On Tue, 23 Nov 1999 18:04:29 +0000,
> |>bob hubbard <rhubbard@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> |>>Hello ,
> |>> Having downloaded the available patches and files from your web site i
> |>>cannot find the discussed binary
> |>>called '/sbin/vmdump' .
> |>>1/ Where is this located ? .
> |>
> |>linux/lcrash/scripts/sbin.vmdump, after applying the patch. "make
> |>install" copies sbin.vmdump to /sbin/vmdump.
Thanks - i dumped this down yesterday applied the 'patch' to kernel AND
didn't expect to run 'make install' .
I just put this in place manually since , thanks .
note path to which this patch went to .
root@starfire64 scripts]# pwd
/usr/src/linux/cmd/lcrash/scripts/Makefile ...
>
>
> This is correct. You shouldn't see an error if the file doesn't exist,
> but then again, you need it to configure your system properly. There's
> also a README in cmd/lcrash/scripts that discusses what each of those
> files are for.
>
> We need to update the READMEs to be more reflective of our move into
> the kernel. I'll try to have that done for 1.0.4.
>
> |>>2/ Will this function with swapfile located on IDE ? .
> |>
> |>Not at the moment, in progress.
>
> Definitely in progress. I'm working on this with Marc Esipovich, who
> has been looking at it as of two weeks ago.
Mmm &^( , well i'll await this for my laptop playground ....
>
>
> |>ps. When do we get Linux on Amdahl hardware ;)?
You already can - ; but then we tout many architectures these days . Intel,
sparc64 and 390 .
>
>
> Heh. :) The MIPS port shouldn't be that difficult, but other
> platforms (and the IDE work) are getting in the way. Perhaps soon.
> You (and Ralf Baechle) have asked for it at this point.
>
> By the way, if anyone has any experience whatsoever with IDE device
> drivers, I have a few questions. :) I'm utilizing do_rw_disk() in
> the kernel, but there's some race conditions I'm hitting that I'd like
> to resolve. Right now I have an ide_raw_read() that avoids the buffer
> cache altogether, but it occasionally hangs.
>
> Thanks, all!
>
> --Matt
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