Date: Sat, 27 Jul 1996 22:58:24 +1000 From: Bruce Evans <bde@zeta.org.au> To: bde@zeta.org.au, se@zpr.uni-koeln.de Cc: current@FreeBSD.org, scrappy@ki.net, stable@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: ncr53c810 driver in stable/current Message-ID: <199607271258.WAA11898@godzilla.zeta.org.au>
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>As a work around to those people in need to have >kernel dumps written to disk on a NCR system: Is >it worth the effort to detect the special situation >and have the driver ignore the memory hole in the >dump ? It would have to fill the hole(s) with nulls or something for compatibility (savecore and gdb don't understand holes). To handle this machine-independently, xddump() should probably write a memory map and not dump the holes; then savecore should fill the holes with null blocks. Otherwise /dev/mem would take more than 2^64 bytes of memory to map on 64-bit systems with physical memory at high addresses. Bruce
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