Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over. | From | Alan Cox <> | Date | 10 Nov 2002 14:31:57 +0000 |
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On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 02:18, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Load a new *something* on panic. That something might be a new kernel > > but it might also be a kernel dump system like LKCD or a debugger front > > end for something like kdb, or a network dump module, or ... > > And if it isn't a kernel why not load it as a module? The code > has to come preloaded anyway.
You may want to load it as a module or via syscall request. Doesn't matter which really. But you do want all the intelligence in the loaded code not in the reboot stub of the dying code.
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