From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Bruno Cornec Date: Tue, 22 Jul 2003 13:31:33 +0000 Subject: Re: a nice way to reboot :-) Message-Id: List-Id: References: In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Grant Grundler (iod00d@hp.com) said: > On Tue, Jul 22, 2003 at 02:32:54PM +0200, Bruno Cornec wrote: > > On Linux/ia64 when you do cat /proc/kcore, the system just reboots in a= couple > > of seconds (with RHAS 2.1 std kernel, updated kernel - 2.4.18-e.31) or = even with a=20 > > vanilla 2.4.21 + david's patches. >=20 > Known behavior.=20 Humm :-) I tend to find that hardly acceptable that people can crash so eas= ily=20 a system.=20 > David Mosberger tells me Tony Luck changed the support in > 2.6 such that only valid regions are accessible.=20 I didn't take time to test with a 2.6, but will now that you say it could b= e useful :-) > Don't expect it fixed in RHAS > anytime soon. You might check if Bjorn Helgaas' ia64 patch on top of 2.4.= 21 > fixes the same problem. Excuse-me I meant Bjorn's patch on top of 2.4.21. And yes it's crashing the= same way with the latest I tried (linux-2.4.21-ia64-030702.diff.bz2). Of course, being of no help to provide a valid one, I can't cry if you say it's not easy/possible on 2.4 ;-) Thanks for your answer, Bruno. --=20 Linux Solution Consultant T=E9l: +33 476 143 278 - Fax: +33 476 146= 105 HP/Intel Solution Center http://hpintelco.net Hewlett-Packard Grenoble/Fran= ce Des infos sur Linux? http://www.HyPer-Linux.org http://www.hp.com/lin= ux La musique ancienne? http://www.musique-ancienne.org http://www.medieval.o= rg