On 05/02/07 17:58, Bernhard Walle wrote: > That was no IA64 machine. It was x86_64 and 2.6.5. (In fact, the patch > doesn't retrieve the registers on IA64 for the stack pointer.) Sorry, I should have broken the paragraph there, it was more of a assertion that IA64 is fine, i.e. no reason to change. > Why do we need to guess the registers if we really *have* it in the > dump? What's wrong with the general idea to fetch the dump header > and to use that information? To address all of Dave's concerns with the submitted patch. It was simply a question of, if there is a simple workaround can we just use that instead to minimize the changes. I didn't mean to imply that accessing the arch specific dump header was bad idea, it's just that its arch specific and requires a rather large patch. Troy -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
