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Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/04] Kexec / Kdump: Release 20061122 (xen-unsta

To: Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@xxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH 00/04] Kexec / Kdump: Release 20061122 (xen-unstable-12502)
From: Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Wed, 29 Nov 2006 11:06:48 +0000
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On Wed, 2006-11-29 at 19:59 +0900, Magnus Damm wrote:
> > If you wanted to you could use a bit of the existing "Xen" namespace. It
> > is currently only used by notes which are consumed by the domain
> > builder. They are defined in xen/include/public/elfnote.h.
> 
> Sounds like a good idea. What about:
> 
> #define XEN_ELFNOTE_CRASH_INFO 13 /* system information */
> #define XEN_ELFNOTE_CRASH_REGS 14 /* per-cpu system registers */

Perhaps use 0x1000001 and 0x1000002 to distinguish the types of notes?

(we could rewrite the existing notes as 0x0000000x to make this clearer)

> The types will map to data structures instead of single numeric values
> or strings though, but maybe that is ok.

That's fine. Ultimately I'd like to get the data structures in there too
but don't worry about that for now.

Ian.


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