Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 28 Jul 2004 19:09:20 +0200 | From | Andrea Arcangeli <> | Subject | Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API |
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On Wed, Jul 28, 2004 at 08:21:26AM -0700, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > --Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> wrote (on Wednesday, July 28, 2004 15:06:27 +0100): > > > On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 15:38, Martin J. Bligh wrote: > >> After kexec, we shouldn't need such things, do we? Before it, Linus won't > >> take the patch, as he said he doesn't like systems in unstable states doing > >> crashdumps to disk ... > > > > And what does kexec do.. it accesses the disk. A SHA signed standalone > > dumper is as safe as anything else if not safer. > > But it's reading, not writing ... personally I'm happier with that bit ;-)
I was using mcore a few years back and it didn't need to read anything to launch the new kernel image with bootimg, the new kernel image was stored in a safe place in memory IIRC - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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