Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:31:02 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:31:02 -0500 Received: from mail.ocs.com.au ([203.34.97.2]:11274 "HELO mail.ocs.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Mon, 17 Mar 2003 18:31:01 -0500 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.4 06/23/2000 with nmh-1.0.4 From: Keith Owens To: Andi Kleen Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] 2.4.21-pre5 kksymoops for i386/ia64 In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:33:07 BST." Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Tue, 18 Mar 2003 10:41:46 +1100 Message-ID: <30411.1047944506@ocs3.intra.ocs.com.au> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1126 Lines: 25 On Mon, 17 Mar 2003 17:33:07 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote: >Keith Owens writes: > >> Automatic decoding of oops on 2.5 has been very useful, so this patch >> adds kksymoops support to 2.4.21-pre5. Currently only for i386 and >> ia64, other architectures are easy to add. > >This 2.4 kallsyms patch doesn't work for cross compilation because >the modutils are terminally broken in this regard. > >Rather than using this patch I would rather backport the 2.5 code >which works fine even for cross and compresses the symbol tables too. The 2.5 kallsyms does not have section data which is required for kdb (and probably kgdb). That data used to be there until Rusty deleted it, the lack of section data is one of the reasons that I no longer do kdb for 2.5. If you want to kill kdb for 2.4 kernels as well, go ahead and backport the incomplete 2.5 code. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/