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Re: lkcd status?

To: Jan IVEN <jan.iven@xxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: lkcd status?
From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2000 08:16:08 -0700 (PDT)
Cc: lkcd@xxxxxxxxxxx
In-reply-to: <unm7ldis4sd.fsf@asis-w2.cern.ch>
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On 28 Apr 2000, Jan IVEN wrote:
|>>>>>> "Tom" == Tom Morano <tjm@xxxxxxx> writes:
|>...
|> Tom> porting LKCD to 2.3.x. I know that from an lcrash point of view,
|> Tom> you can grab the latest source (for 2.2 and 2.3) from
|> Tom> SourceForge (project lkcd). With the 2.3 version of lcrash, you
|> Tom> can run lcrash against a live system and can now generate a
|> Tom> compressed dump from live system memory -- without crashing the
|> Tom> system (I'm going to back port this feature to 2.2).  Matt can
|>
|>I'd certainly be interested to give this feature a spin on 2.2. Could
|>you provide some details as to when it will be available?
|>
|>Besides, is there new information on the raw io issue for IDE?

The 2.3.X version of LKCD will work with IDE disks.  The map_kernel_kiobuf()
mechanisms are now available to use, which means we can map kernel pages
to kiobufs and use the brw_kiovec() function.

--Matt

|>Regards
|>Jan
|>


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