Hi Bernhard, 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/. Thank you for the information :-) > I just used asciidoc because I hate nroff. I hope it's ok for you to > distribute that manual page. The manual page is for its usage, and I feel it is better to describe the implementation on the other file (README or IMPLEMENTATION). Thanks Ken'ichi Ohmichi -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
