From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030442AbVIVQke (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:40:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030441AbVIVQke (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:40:34 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:7331 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030440AbVIVQkd (ORCPT ); Thu, 22 Sep 2005 12:40:33 -0400 To: vgoyal@in.ibm.com Cc: Dave Anderson , Morton Andrew Morton , Fastboot mailing list , linux kernel mailing list Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO tokernel core dumps References: <20050921065633.GC3780@in.ibm.com> <43317980.D6AEA859@redhat.com> <20050922140824.GF3753@in.ibm.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2005 10:38:56 -0600 In-Reply-To: <20050922140824.GF3753@in.ibm.com> (Vivek Goyal's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2005 19:38:24 +0530") Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.1007 (Gnus v5.10.7) Emacs/21.4 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Vivek Goyal writes: > I quickly browsed through "crash" code and looks like it is already doing > similiar check (kernel.c, verify_version()). It seems to be retrieving > "linux_banner" from core image and also retrieving banner string from vmlinux > and trying to match. So if banner information can be directly read from the > core image, probably there is no need to export it through notes. Sounds good. We still need to define a note for the cpu control registers. Do any of the other crash dump solution capture that information right now? Eric