Re: ANNOUNCE: Linux Kernel Crash Dumps (LKCD) 2.0 Available

From: John Silva (jps@aerizen.com)
Date: Thu Jul 27 2000 - 14:32:57 EDT

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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
    >
    >
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