Re: [Crash-utility] [PATCH] Use registers from LKCD header to getstarting ESP register
On 05/02/07 17:58, Bernhard Walle wrote:
That was no IA64 machine. It was x86_64 and 2.6.5. (In fact, the
patch
doesn't retrieve the registers on IA64 for the stack pointer.)
Sorry, I should have broken the paragraph there, it was more of a
assertion that IA64 is fine, i.e. no reason to change.
Why do we need to guess the registers if we really *have* it in the
dump? What's wrong with the general idea to fetch the dump header
and to use that information?
To address all of Dave's concerns with the submitted patch. It was
simply a question of, if there is a simple workaround can we just use
that instead to minimize the changes. I didn't mean to imply that
accessing the arch specific dump header was bad idea, it's just that
its arch specific and requires a rather large patch.
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