Why don't you ask Whitehorn or other members of the FreeBSD PowerPC team this question. Very few of the hackers deal with anything outside of standard i386 and AMD64 platforms.
[email protected] [email protected] Justin Hibbits On 4/3/11, Andreas Tobler <[email protected]> wrote: > Hello all, > > to investigate a system lockup I need to implement kerneldumps on > powerpc. Well, exactly on PowerMacs. The booke should already support > this feature. > > Right now I'm at the point where I can dump something, means the > mechanism to be able to get a (core) dump for example via 'call doadump' > in db works. I can restore the dump via savecore. > > I took the approach from booke and implemented the necessary functions > for PowerMacs. But here I'm offline. > > I do not understand what I want to dump, means which part of the memory. > Once I know what to dump, where do I find the information, which addresses? > > How can I get a picture of the memory organization form powermacs? > Is there a pointer available about pmap in the kernel to find out a bit > more on this topic? > > What is really needed to be able to run kgdb on a core file to be able > to find where the kernel crashed? > > I know the questions are a bit vague, but I need an entry point. > > I appreciate any pointer to implement this feature. > > Tia, > Andreas > _______________________________________________ > [email protected] mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]" > _______________________________________________ [email protected] mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-hackers To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[email protected]"
