"Eric W. Biederman" wrote:
> Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> writes:
>
> > I quickly browsed through "crash" code and looks like it is already doing
> > similiar check (kernel.c, verify_version()). It seems to be retrieving
> > "linux_banner" from core image and also retrieving banner string from vmlinux
> > and trying to match. So if banner information can be directly read from the
> > core image, probably there is no need to export it through notes.
>
> Sounds good. We still need to define a note for the cpu control
> registers. Do any of the other crash dump solution capture that
> information right now?
>
> Eric
Certainly not in netdump, diskdump or LKCD...
On the other hand, I can't say I ever really needed it, although
that's not to say it couldn't be valuable for some types of
crashes.
Dave