Some of this has to be leveraged by the other companies and
users working on the Linux product for different processors.
Unfortunately, I don't have a PowerPC box, or an Alpha box,
or even a Sparc box for that matter. The structure of the
cmd/lcrash and arch/<whatever>/kernel/ code should be easy to
leverage from one release to another.
As for the 'lcrash' binary, you'll need to use the one that was
built with the kernel. That's the whole reason for putting the
'lcrash' code into the kernel tree in the first place. Because
symbol table data isn't available in the vmlinu{x,z}, there's
no good way to understand what a "struct task" is, for example,
from an Alpha to a PowerPC to a ...
--Matt
On Thu, 4 Nov 1999, Brian Hall wrote:
|>Are there plans to port lkcd to other platforms, such as PowerPC and Alpha? It
|>would be nice to examine a crash from a different platform (for example, walk
|>through a Linux Alpha crash dump on a Linux Intel machine).
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