From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261184AbUG1SBT (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:01:19 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261239AbUG1SBS (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:01:18 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:64695 "EHLO ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261184AbUG1SBR (ORCPT ); Wed, 28 Jul 2004 14:01:17 -0400 To: Jesse Barnes Cc: Andrew Morton , Keith Owens , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Suparna Bhattacharya , "Martin J. Bligh" , fastboot@osdl.org Subject: Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API References: <16734.1090513167@ocs3.ocs.com.au> <20040725235705.57b804cc.akpm@osdl.org> <200407280903.37860.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 28 Jul 2004 12:00:31 -0600 In-Reply-To: <200407280903.37860.jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.2 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jesse Barnes writes: > On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:53 pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote: > > Hmm. I think this will require one of the kernels to run at a > > non-default address in physical memory. > > Right, and some platforms already support this, fortunately. > > > Which will largely depend on the quality of it's device drivers... > > I think this could end up being a good thing. It gives more people a stake in > making sure that driver shutdown() routines work well. Which actually is one of the items open for discussion currently. For kexec on panic do we want to run the shutdown() routines? Eric