Kdump has been merged and supported on several architectures.
It is better to encourage to use kdump rather than non standard
kernel crash dump patches.
Signed-off-by: Akinobu Mita <[email protected]>
--- 2.6/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt.orig 2006-01-06 10:55:53.000000000 +0900
+++ 2.6/Documentation/oops-tracing.txt 2006-01-06 10:58:30.000000000 +0900
@@ -41,11 +41,9 @@ the disk is not available then you have
run a null modem to a second machine and capture the output there
using your favourite communication program. Minicom works well.
-(3) Patch the kernel with one of the crash dump patches. These save
- data to a floppy disk or video rom or a swap partition. None of
- these are standard kernel patches so you have to find and apply
- them yourself. Search kernel archives for kmsgdump, lkcd and
- oops+smram.
+(3) Use Kdump (see Documentation/kdump/kdump.txt),
+ extract the kernel ring buffer from old memory with using dmesg
+ gdbmacro in Documentation/kdump/gdbmacros.txt.
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