* Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at in.ibm.com> [2007-07-10 08:36]: > > does anybody know a _reliable_ way to determine the version the kernel > > that produced a vmcore file? This means not scanning for a specific > > string or something like that which can fail on random memory. > > > > Would it make sense to add a ELF PT_NOTE section in the vmcore? > > To me it makes sense to append an ELF NOTE to vmcore which can uniquely > associate that vmcore with a particular vmlinux file (Some string > equivalent to the output of uname -a). Well, if we embed the CONFIGFILE from makedumpfile in some magic way we don't need it ... we'll see. > Interesting thing is that to find version of vmlinux, you will still be > doing <string | grep "some pattern">. Probably then we should append an > ELF note to vmlinux file also? Yes, that was my proposal some time ago, see http://article.gmane.org/gmane.comp.boot-loaders.fastboot.general/3996 Any comments on that patch are appreciated. :) Thanks, Bernhard
