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Subject: Re: [parisc-linux] Pb with dump driver. 
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Date: Sat, 16 Feb 2002 23:15:21 -0700
From: Grant Grundler <grundler@dsl2.external.hp.com>
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Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> I personally HATE the idea of a kernel dump driver and
> think that MPE's solution (on a TOC, dump the ram after reset) was
> more elegant and easy to prove correct.
> 
> Note that grant disagrees with me on this.

I'm not religous about this. At this point, I'm happy for *any*
kind of a dump tool to debug kernel state when the system crashes.

grant