On Tue, Jan 23, 2007 at 08:12:33PM +0530, Sachin P. Sant wrote: > * On ppc64 memory ranges in device-tree is denoted as start and size. > * While in case of other architectures like i386 it is represented as start > and > * end. Because of this when loading the memory ranges in crashdump-elf.c the > * filesz calculation using start and end values of memory range goes for a > toss. > * > * phdr->p_filesz = phdr->p_memsz = mend - mstart + 1; > * > * Because of the +1 in above statement the generated vmcore is not a valid > * dump file. > * > * There are different ways in which this problem can be fixed. > * A. Add a ifdef in crashdump-elf.c for elf machine type. > * if EM_PPC64 then > * filesz = end - start; > * else > * filesz = end - start + 1; > * fi > * B. Change the ppc64 specific code so as to follow the i386 convention when > * it comes to representing memory ranges. > * C. Create a PPC64 specific function to populate crash ranges and not use > * the generic function from crashdump-elf.c > * > * Of all these solutions B is the smallest and works well. Here is a patch > * to implement the same. > * > > Signed-off-by : Sachin Sant <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Thanks, applied. -- Horms H: http://www.vergenet.net/~horms/ W: http://www.valinux.co.jp/en/ _______________________________________________ fastboot mailing list [email protected] https://lists.osdl.org/mailman/listinfo/fastboot
