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From: David Mosberger <davidm@napali.hpl.hp.com>
Date: Tue, 13 May 2003 08:08:19 +0000
Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Dump driver module
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>>>>> On Tue, 13 May 2003 09:38:05 +0200, Bruno Vidal <bruno_vidal@hp.com> said:

  Bruno> There is no other way to access EFI or firmware ?

The EFI standard certainly won't help you here.  Whether or not
vendors have their own backdoors to a low-level disk driver, I don't
know.

  Bruno> Or reset back EFI to have access to BLOCK IO interface ?

You can warm-boot via EFI.  But I'm not sure there is any guarantee
that all kernel memory will be preserved.

	--david