[Crash-utility] Re: Kdump compressed format
* 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.
However, if you wonder, I didn't need that information for documentation
but for page size on PPC64 ... thanks again!
Bernhard
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Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development