From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Grant Grundler Date: Wed, 14 May 2003 15:41:23 +0000 Subject: Re: [Linux-ia64] Dump driver module Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org On Wed, May 14, 2003 at 02:29:00PM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote: > But those HPUX systems were on PA which has PDC which can write to > the disc. The problem on ia64 is that EFI can't after the OS has started. yup - I understood that. The "where to write" information getting corrupted is the same problem regardless of where the driver code to do the writes exists. grant