Re: [Fastboot] [PATCH] Kdump(x86): add note type NT_KDUMPINFO tokernel core dumps

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Vivek Goyal <[email protected]> writes:

> I quickly browsed through "crash" code and looks like it is already doing
> similiar check (kernel.c, verify_version()). It seems to be retrieving 
> "linux_banner" from core image and also retrieving banner string from vmlinux 
> and trying to match. So if banner information can be directly read from the 
> core image, probably there is no need to export it through notes. 

Sounds good.  We still need to define a note for the cpu control
registers.  Do any of the other crash dump solution capture that
information right now?

Eric

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