> Like a more specialized piece of code that only handles kernel coredumps? Can't the kdump kernel be exactly that? You can build a second kernel separate fro

> Like a more specialized piece of code that only handles kernel coredumps? Can't the kdump kernel be exactly that? You can build a second kernel separate from the normal one, that only has the necessary options enabled to handle the coredump stuff. This way it can be relatively small and you can reuse the required driver code.