In general, crash doesn't support cross-platform usage. That is to say, if you want to look at a PPC dump, you need to do it on a PPC machine, using a crash that was built on a PPC machine. This is not, strictly speaking, an inherent limitation. I've got a version of crash that can handle MIPS dumps, and I build and run this version of crash on an x86 system. While I was at it, I added the capability of building an x86 version of crash on an x86_64 system, but Dave A. hasn't seemed interested in picking up such changes. Regards, -- David Wright ________________________________ From: crash-utility-bounces(a)redhat.com [mailto:crash-utility-bounces@redhat.com] On Behalf Of Vivek P Sent: Wednesday, August 08, 2007 10:47 AM To: crash-utility(a)redhat.com Subject: [Crash-utility] Debugging PPC crash-dumps on x86_64 Hi , I have a crash-dump generated on PPC using diskdump . Can this crash-dump be analyzed using crash-utility running on a x86_64 machine ? Thanks and regards Vivek ebay <http://adworks.rediff.com/cgi-bin/AdWorks/click.cgi/www.rediff.com/sign ature-home.htm/1050715198@Middle5/1362386_1355934/1361766/1?PARTNER=3&OA S_QUERY=null target=new>

On Wed, 2007-08-08 at 14:46 +0000, Vivek P wrote: i have taken over the work from rainer bawidamann: https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2006-May/msg00039.html currently we are using a patched version of crash (based on 4.0-3.21) that can analyze dumps from ppc32 on x86. my plan would be to cleanup and adapt the patchset for the latest version of crash in some more general. so maybe this reaches a point where it could get applied to the mainline of crash ... but i know that this was discussed before here and not everyone feels an urgent need for such patch. andreas