Messages in this thread | | | From | "John Silva" <> | Subject | Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) 2.0 Available | Date | Thu, 27 Jul 2000 11:32:57 -0700 |
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This patch set contains a significant number of apparently unrelated changes to Configure.help which removes a large number configuration options that are supported by the newer kernels (for example, most of the updated ATA controller options are removed)
Was this the intent?
----- Original Message ----- From: "Matt D. Robinson" <yakker@turbolinux.com> To: <linux-kernel@vger.rutgers.edu> Sent: Thursday, July 27, 2000 10:52 AM Subject: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) 2.0 Available
> 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/ >
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