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Date:      12 Mar 2002 19:58:26 +0100
From:      Dag-Erling Smorgrav <des@ofug.org>
To:        Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org>
Cc:        Jake Burkholder <jake@locore.ca>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c
Message-ID:  <xzp1yepwr3h.fsf@flood.ping.uio.no>
In-Reply-To: <20020312185150.40FE6380A@overcee.wemm.org>
References:  <20020312185150.40FE6380A@overcee.wemm.org>

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Peter Wemm <peter@wemm.org> writes:
> Dag-Erling Smorgrav wrote:
> > ISTR that dumpsys already reserves an extra page or so at the end of
> > the dump; this might be a good place to store this data.  If not, I'll
> > have to modify the format of the dump.
> Nope.  And to make it worse, the dump routines are in the MI drivers.
> dumpsys() does not *do* the dumps, it is the drivers themselves.

Yeah, I know.  I'm working on the ata driver since that's what most
Ultras will use IIRC.  I've already modified setdumpdev() to reserve
an extra page at the end of the dump.

BTW, setdumpdev() assumes that PAGE_SIZE is a multiple of DEV_BSIZE;
is this universally true, or just coincidentially true?

DES
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Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org

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