Fujitsu has stand-alone dump mechanism based on firmware level functionality, which we call SADUMP, in short. We've maintained utility tools internally but now we're thinking that the best is crash utility and makedumpfile supports the sadump format for the viewpoint of both portability and maintainability. We'll be of course responsible for its maintainance in a continuous manner. The sadump dump format is very similar to diskdump format and so kdump (compressed) format, so we estimate patch set would be a relatively small size. Could you tell me whether crash utility and makedumpfile can support the sadump format? If OK, we'll start to make patchset. Thanks. HATAYAMA, Daisuke
