Re: On X86 host, how to build crash tool which can analysis pwoerpc vmcore

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On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 01:05:44PM +0100, Bryn M. Reeves wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 05:30:30AM +0000, Liu, Jianbo (James) wrote:
> > Even if we build with cross compiler, we still can not meet this request?
> 
> Even with a cross compiler you'd need an environment to execute the
> resulting powerpc build - about the only way that you can do that on
> an x86 host is to use something like Qemu's powerpc support:
> 
>   http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/library/l-qemu-development/
> 
> It's slow compared to real hardware but if using a real power host is
> not an option this may be worth looking into.

I tested this earlier for analysis of a big-endian MIPS dump on an
x86-64 host, with success.  See these for more info:

https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2015-March/msg00001.html
https://www.redhat.com/archives/crash-utility/2015-January/msg00028.html

Rabin

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