[Bug 219153] head, stable/11, release/11.0.1: libkvm (& more?) not updated to handle powerpc/powerpc64 ET_DYN based vmcore.* 's and such

https://bugs.freebsd.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=219153 Mark Linimon changed: What|Removed |Added Assignee|freebsd-b...@freebsd.org

Re: Lack of TARGET_ARCH=powerpc support in kgdb from devel/gdb (e.g., -r440115 of /usr/ports): "ABI doesn't support a vmcore target"

[I've submitted bugzilla 219153 for this libvm issue of not handling powerpc's/powerp64's ET_DYN vmcore.* 's and such.] On 2017-May-8, at 1:18 PM, Mark Millard wrote: > [Mostly: Why THING #2 fails: checks for ET_EXEC > but the actual vmcore.* 's have ET_DYN instead.] > >

Re: Lack of TARGET_ARCH=powerpc support in kgdb from devel/gdb (e.g., -r440115 of /usr/ports): "ABI doesn't support a vmcore target"

[Mostly: Why THING #2 fails: checks for ET_EXEC but the actual vmcore.* 's have ET_DYN instead.] On 2017-May-8, at 11:30 AM, John Baldwin wrote: > On Saturday, May 06, 2017 10:03:57 PM Mark Millard wrote: >> THING #0: >> >> It appears that usr.sbin/crashinfo/crashinfo.sh assumes >> that

Re: Lack of TARGET_ARCH=powerpc support in kgdb from devel/gdb (e.g., -r440115 of /usr/ports): "ABI doesn't support a vmcore target"

On Saturday, May 06, 2017 10:03:57 PM Mark Millard wrote: > THING #0: > > It appears that usr.sbin/crashinfo/crashinfo.sh assumes > that /usr/local/bin/gdb will work better for all architectures, > including for kgdb types of activity: > > find_gdb() > { > local binary > > for