On 18-Jan-2000 Matt Robinson wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2000, Brian Hall wrote:
>|>No, it applied cleanly against the i386 branch. I edited the patch for
>|>i386/vmdump.c and applied it against my modified Alpha version, which
>|>resulted
>|>in me having to hand resolve one or two things (no big surprise, and not a
>|>problem).
>|>
>|>Getting close to actually testing the dumping mechanism on Alpha, I
>|>think. I hope to try it via the method in the FAQ on Monday or Tuesday next
>|>week. If that part works I'll release it to the list (danger! pre-patch!),
>|>hopefully someone else here with an Alpha can try it and/or see if it is
>|>correct. Then, I'll start working on the lcrash tools.
>|>
>|>Unless there is some reason to do otherwise, I'll plan on providing the
>|>Alpha (testing) version as a patch against lkcd-1.0.4 (i.e. apply the lkcd &
>|>sgi+straw patches to the 2.2.13 tree, then the Alpha patch).
>
> Sounds cool, we can provide the patch either as part of the main patch,
> or on our web site. Let me know what you'd like to do.
Well, eventually I'd like it to be part of the main patch. I was just speaking
of the initial method of "submitting" my changes. A patch against lkcd1.04
seems like the easiest way to do that.
>
> Also, I'm a bit closer on the IDE stuff, once I got through to some
> people about what I was trying to do to the drive. There are other
> problems, however. I'd like to write out to disk without ever having
> to hit a lock. This requires writing my own interface for dumping.
> If I'm going to bother doing this, I might as well write one function
> with a switch() case based on drive type, so then it won't matter
> what happens to the file_operations[] and block/char driver changes.
Sounds fine. I don't have an Alpha at the moment that uses an IDE drive, so for
my initial testing I'm only using SCSI. If you implement IDE dumping and have
another release, I will probably not update to that version until after I have
v1.04 working completely on Alpha SCSI.
>
> Any thoughts?
>
> --Matt
>
> P.S. I'll try to get to the rc.sysinit stuff next week.
OK, no big hurry on that; just seems like the better way to go.
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Brian Hall <brianw.hall@xxxxxxxxxx>
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