Just an FYI, I found something in the alpha version that was
bogus in my latest patch. I'll clean it up and make a 2.0.2 on
Monday. I'm in the middle of backporting the 2.3 changes to
2.2 this weekend.
--Matt
On Sat, 29 Jul 2000, Matt D. Robinson wrote:
|>The 2.0.1 version of the Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) project is now
|>available -- this version applies to 2.3.99-pre9 kernels, and includes
|>some of Stephen Tweedie's patches for kiobufs (since we need them).
|>
|>LKCD provides systems with the ability to save a system crash dump when
|>the kernel has a panic or exception, and saves the memory to your swap
|>space, recovering it on reboot, and creating a crash dump report which
|>can be sent to support personnel (or groups like 'lkml', if necessary).
|>
|>Feel free to download our current patch from:
|>
|>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/download/2.0.1
|>
|>You can also look at and contribute to the source project on SourceForge.
|>The project's CVS location is at:
|>
|>http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=lkcd
|>
|>And as always, information about LKCD, including news, an FAQ, etc.,
|>can be found at:
|>
|>http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/
|>
|>A few points to note:
|>
|>- The x86 version works great, but we're still working on the Alpha and
|> IA-64 ports. They're coming along, however ... keep reading the LKCD
|> News page for updates. Thanks to Brian Hall for his help with the
|> Alpha port.
|>
|>- While you can build the vmdump code as a *module*, and it works, for now
|> just build the vmdump code directly into the kernel -- the reason is
|> because we still have to build the ability to perform stack traces when
|> the code goes through a module. (And that will take some time to
|> complete, as it's kind of ugly to do ...)
|>
|>- We are no longer limited to SCSI devices, like we were with the 2.2
|> kernel version. We're going to try to backport the 2.3 changes into
|> 2.2, so we have a universal version.
|>
|>If you have any other questions, please send me an E-mail, or review
|>the FAQ on the oss.sgi.com web site. Thanks.
|>
|>--Matt
|>
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