On Thu, 4 Sep 2014 12:19:15 -0400 (EDT)
Dave Anderson <anderson(a)redhat.com> wrote:
Petr, Michel, et al,
Hi Dave et al.,
FWIW the upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 release will ship a
crash utility that works on ppc64le, and I think IBM has already tested
it successfully. I'll see how I can make the latest sources available on
a public site.
Petr Tesarik
I'm currently working on adding ppc64le support for the next
upstream
crash release. I'm working from a Fedora bugzilla filed by Michel Normand,
where he that applied the "crash-gdb-7.6.series" set of patches from the
openSUSE
distribution. Thanks Michel for doing the initial legwork using the Fedora
tree.
For the upstream crash utility repo, I do not want to carry the set of 9 patches
individually, but similar to the singular gdb-7.6.patch, I plan to concatenate
them into a singular gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch.
Ideally the contents of the 9 patch files could be added to the gdb-7.6.patch,
and I may do that in the future.
However, just the crash-gdb-7.6-bound_minimal_symbol.patch in the 9-part set
is so large and intrusive (touching dozens of arch-neutral files) that
I am paranoid about breaking something, or altering behavior for the
other architectures. So I plan to take a more cautious route for now,
and only apply the gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch if the build host is
ppc64le.
Thanks,
Dave