Re: [Fastboot] Re: [RFC]Kexec based crash dumping

From: Eric W. Biederman
Date: Fri Aug 20 2004 - 03:23:55 EST


Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxx> writes:

> Hariprasad Nellitheertha <hari@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > The patches that follow contain the initial implementation for kexec based
> > crash dumping that we are working on.
>
> It seems to be coming together nicely.

Well it is coming. There is a lot of exploratory work still needed to
find what it takes to reliably get a kernel working in the hostile
environment present after a kernel panic. That really has
barely begun and it likely to turn up some unexpected architecture
specific issues.

Eric
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