Kdump compressed format

[Ken'ichi Ohmichi]

Hi Bernhard,

Bernhard Walle wrote:
> * Ken'ichi Ohmichi [2008-08-05 15:21]:
>> Bernhard Walle wrote:
>>> is there any documentation how the kdump compressed format (or the
>>> diskdump format, from what it is derived) looks like? Beside of the
>>> source code of the tools that support it. ;-)
>> The kdump compressed format is supported by only the crash utility
>> and makedumpfile command. gdb does not support it. I think that
>> there is not any documentation about the kdump compressed format,
>> then I wrote it. Is it enough ?
> 
> Thanks a lot! Yes, that gives me the overview I needed.
> 
> I grabbed your information and generated a manual page from it where I
> also want to describe the other dump formats (when I have some time
> left):
> 
>    http://www.suse.de/~bwalle/kdump/
> 
> That's basically part of the SUSE kdump configuration, maintained in
> http://freehg.org/u/bwalle/kdump/.

Thank you for the information :-)


> I just used asciidoc because I hate nroff. I hope it's ok for you to
> distribute that manual page.

The manual page is for its usage, and I feel it is better to describe
the implementation on the other file (README or IMPLEMENTATION).


Thanks
Ken'ichi Ohmichi