On Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:43:01 -0400 Dave Anderson <anderson@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Petr, > > Are the sources different the openSUSE patches? Dave, I've just cheked it, and they haven't changed. So, we're talking about crash-gdb-*.patch files from: https://build.opensuse.org/package/show/Kernel:kdump/crash I took these patches directly from our gdb package, which means they should appear in a future gdb release, and then we'll get them for free by upgrading the embedded gdb in crash. Please also see my comments below. > > Petr, Michel, et al, > > Hi Dave et al., > > FWIW the upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 12 release will ship a > crash utility that works on ppc64le, and I think IBM has already tested > it successfully. I'll see how I can make the latest sources available on > a public site. > > Petr Tesarik > > > I'm currently working on adding ppc64le support for the next upstream > > crash release. I'm working from a Fedora bugzilla filed by Michel Normand, > > where he that applied the "crash-gdb-7.6.series" set of patches from the openSUSE > > distribution. Thanks Michel for doing the initial legwork using the Fedora > > tree. > > > > For the upstream crash utility repo, I do not want to carry the set of 9 patches > > individually, but similar to the singular gdb-7.6.patch, I plan to concatenate > > them into a singular gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch. Why? AFAICS it will only make rebasing to a different gdb version harder. > > Ideally the contents of the 9 patch files could be added to the gdb-7.6.patch, > > and I may do that in the future. I feel quite the opposite. The existing gdb-7.6.patch, which is always such a pain to port when the gdb version changes, should be split up into individual logical changes, and applied much like my 9 patches. That way I can use quilt (http://savannah.nongnu.org/projects/quilt) to update the patch series when necesssary. I definitely find it easier to update a number of smaller patches one by one than trying to update one huge patch. Just my two eurocents, Petr Tesarik > > However, just the crash-gdb-7.6-bound_minimal_symbol.patch in the 9-part set > > is so large and intrusive (touching dozens of arch-neutral files) that > > I am paranoid about breaking something, or altering behavior for the > > other architectures. So I plan to take a more cautious route for now, > > and only apply the gdb-7.6-ppc64le-support.patch if the build host is > > ppc64le. > > > > Thanks, > > Dave -- Crash-utility mailing list Crash-utility@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/crash-utility
