Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262180AbVBBHKV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:10:21 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262127AbVBBHKV (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:10:21 -0500 Received: from sv1.valinux.co.jp ([210.128.90.2]:51149 "EHLO sv1.valinux.co.jp") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262180AbVBBHKL (ORCPT ); Wed, 2 Feb 2005 02:10:11 -0500 Date: Wed, 02 Feb 2005 16:10:15 +0900 From: Itsuro Oda To: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Subject: Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Reserving backup region for kexec based crashdumps. Cc: Vivek Goyal , Andrew Morton , fastboot , lkml , Maneesh Soni , Hariprasad Nellitheertha , suparna bhattacharya In-Reply-To: References: <1107271039.15652.839.camel@2fwv946.in.ibm.com> Message-Id: <20050202154926.18D4.ODA@valinux.co.jp> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="US-ASCII" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Mailer: Becky! ver. 2.10.04 [ja] Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 582 Lines: 17 Hi, I can't understand why ELF format is necessary. I think the only necessary information is "what physical address regions are valid to read". This information is necessary for any sort of dump tools. (and must get it while the system is normal.) The Eric's /proc/cpumem idea sounds nice to me. -- Itsuro ODA - 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/