From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-path: Received: from ns.suse.de ([195.135.220.2] helo=mx1.suse.de) by canuck.infradead.org with esmtps (Exim 4.63 #1 (Red Hat Linux)) id 1HrIsl-0000g0-4X for kexec@lists.infradead.org; Thu, 24 May 2007 15:21:57 -0400 Date: Thu, 24 May 2007 21:21:39 +0200 From: Bernhard Walle Subject: Re: [PATCH] [makedumpfile] Follow debuginfo link of vmlinux file Message-ID: <20070524192139.GA4160@suse.de> References: <20070501133912.GA8247@suse.de> <20070524093556oomichi@mail.jp.nec.com> <4655C9B3.7060903@sgi.com> <4655D9EA.8020601@redhat.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4655D9EA.8020601@redhat.com> List-Id: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: kexec-bounces@lists.infradead.org Errors-To: kexec-bounces+dwmw2=infradead.org+dwmw2=infradead.org@lists.infradead.org To: Dave Anderson Cc: Jay Lan , kexec@lists.infradead.org, Ken'ichi Ohmichi Hello, * Dave Anderson [2007-05-24 20:31]: > The crash utility hides the details of there being a separate debug > file in the same way the gdb does when working with a binary executable > that has a separate debuginfo file. It tries *not* to be ambiguous, > i.e., the point is to stay true to the "crash vmlinux vmcore" model. It's documented in the GDB documentation: http://sourceware.org/gdb/current/onlinedocs/gdb_16.html#SEC154 > That being said, does any other distro besides RHEL3 actually use > the split vmlinux/vmlinux.debug format? Thankfully Red Hat came > to its senses in RHEL4 and beyond... SUSE uses the split out debug information, starting from SLES 10 (also openSUSE). It makes sense on architectures that don't need a separate, bootable kernel image (like x86_64 and i586) but can boot the ELF file directly such as PPC and IA64. Thanks, Bernhard _______________________________________________ kexec mailing list kexec@lists.infradead.org http://lists.infradead.org/mailman/listinfo/kexec