Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

[Martin J. Bligh]

> At that point you might get a corrupt DUMP. But it is extremely
> unlikely any DMA transactions will touch your reserved memory.
> Only the most buggy drivers or hardware will be running
> DMA to the invalid addresses.  At which point there is
> very little you can do in any event.

Nothing we do is ever going to give us 100% perfect crashdumps from any
given situation. I think we need to just accept that and take care not
to destroy anything important (ie disk data), and try to get the best
info into the dump we can.

M

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