Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu) by vger.rutgers.edu via listexpand id ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:36:33 -0400 Received: by vger.rutgers.edu id ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:35:39 -0400 Received: from mail.turbolinux.com ([38.170.88.25]:4465 "EHLO mail.turbolinux.com") by vger.rutgers.edu with ESMTP id ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 13:34:26 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 10:52:36 -0700 (PDT) From: "Matt D. Robinson" To: linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Subject: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) 2.0 Available In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu Content-Length: 1954 Lines: 50 The 2.0 version of the Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) project is now available -- this version applies to 2.3.99-pre9 kernels, and includes some of Stephen Tweedie's patches for kiobufs (since we need them). LKCD provides systems with the ability to save a system crash dump when the kernel has a panic or exception, and saves the memory to your swap space, recovering it on reboot, and creating a crash dump report which can be sent to support personnel (or groups like 'lkml', if necessary). Feel free to download our current patch from: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/download/2.0 You can also look at and contribute to the source project on SourceForge. The project's CVS location is at: http://cvs.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/cvsweb.cgi/?cvsroot=lkcd And as always, information about LKCD, including news, an FAQ, etc., can be found at: http://oss.sgi.com/projects/lkcd/ A few points to note: - The x86 version works great, but we're still working on the Alpha and IA-64 ports. They're coming along, however ... keep reading the LKCD News page for updates. Thanks to Brian Hall for his help with the Alpha port. - While you can build the vmdump code as a *module*, and it works, for now just build the vmdump code directly into the kernel -- the reason is because we still have to build the ability to perform stack traces when the code goes through a module. (And that will take some time to complete, as it's kind of ugly to do ...) - We are no longer limited to SCSI devices, like we were with the 2.2 kernel version. We're going to try to backport the 2.3 changes into 2.2, so we have a universal version. If you have any other questions, please send me an E-mail, or review the FAQ on the oss.sgi.com web site. Thanks. --Matt - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.rutgers.edu Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/