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KdumpID

This utility should provide a fast and reliable method to find out the most important information about an unknown kernel crash dump, such as the architecture and kernel release. Think of it as a kind of "file" utility for kernel dumps.

Motivation

Have you ever received an (unknown) kernel core dump without any comment what it is? Then be welcome, you're the target audience.

Supported formats

As of version 1.0, kdumpid relies on libkdumpfile to open files, so any format understood by libkdumpfile will work properly with kdumpid. Please see libkdumpfile wiki for more information.

The following architectures are fully supported:

• x86
• x86-64
• ppc
• ppc64
• s390
• s390x.

Other architectures may produce some output if the information can be found in the file header.