Re: [Fastboot] Re: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API

Alan Cox
2004-07-29T15:19:39Z

On Iau, 2004-07-29 at 02:12, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Or those devices that hang the machine when you clear it.

There are none. Its required by the PCI spec and used by BIOS vendors
during the boot sequence. So its a *tested* approach.

> And there is the fact that the pci configuration access methods
> are frequently BIOS calls.

You will be running bios code on some systems every time you read
the cmos clock, every time you touch pci config space, every time
you hit a key, even in your new kernel boot up path - whats your
point

> So I do see just clearing the master bit on each PCI devices to
> as dangerous as calling the shutdown methods.

Then we violently disagree