[Crash-utility] Re: Kdump compressed format

Bernhard Walle wrote: > * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-08-05 15:21]: >> Bernhard Walle wrote: >>> is there any documentation how the kdump compressed format (or the >>> diskdump format, from what it is derived) looks like? Beside of the >>> source code of the tools that support it. ;-) >> The kdump compressed format is supported by only the crash utility >> and makedumpfile command. gdb does not support it. I think that >> there is not any documentation about the kdump compressed format, >> then I wrote it. Is it enough ? > > Thanks a lot! Yes, that gives me the overview I needed. > > I grabbed your information and generated a manual page from it where I > also want to describe the other dump formats (when I have some time > left): > > http://www.suse.de/~bwalle/kdump/ > > That's basically part of the SUSE kdump configuration, maintained in > http://freehg.org/u/bwalle/kdump/. > > I just used asciidoc because I hate nroff. I hope it's ok for you to > distribute that manual page. I have one question. On the site (http://www.suse.de/~bwalle/kdump/vmcore.5.txt), the copyright of SUSE is written. If the part of kdump-compressed format is written to the README file of makedumpfile, is it the problem ?