* Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-08-11 21:03]: > 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/. > > > > I just used asciidoc because I hate nroff. I hope it's ok for you to > > distribute that manual page. > > I have one question. > On the site (http://www.suse.de/~bwalle/kdump/vmcore.5.txt), the copyright > of SUSE is written. If the part of kdump-compressed format is written to > the README file of makedumpfile, is it the problem ? No, of course not, I can also change the copyright there if you want. Bernhard -- Bernhard Walle, SUSE LINUX Products GmbH, Architecture Development
