svn commit: r219138 - head/usr.bin/kdump

[Alexander Leidinger]

Quoting Robert Watson <rwatson at FreeBSD.org> (from Thu, 3 Mar 2011  
11:14:59 +0000 (GMT)):

>
> On Tue, 1 Mar 2011, Dmitry Chagin wrote:
>
>> Teach kdump to decode linux syscalls names too.
>>
>> Fix bug introduced in my previous commit: the kernel always dump native
>> signal numbers, so no need to check the ABI in ktrpsig().
>
> Does this mean that we're eliminating the need for the long-broken  
> linux_kdump?

For the linux parts there is (L?)GPLed code in linux_kdump (the main  
reason that it is a port, I think), it is unlikely that someone sits  
there and will do a clean-room implementation of those linux-kernel  
derived things (I like to get proven wrong, anyone out there accepts  
the challenge? ;-) ). Dmitry provided an updated linux-kdump which  
contains preprocessed things (no need to have a non-default  
linuxulator setup). I have the corresponding PR assigned to me, but  
from his comments it looks like his new version depends upon his  
changes and does not DTRT without them (I am awaiting confirmation,  
and I asked about changes to let it DTRT if this is true).

Bye,
Alexander.

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