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

Alan Cox
2004-07-28T11:49:21Z

On Mer, 2004-07-28 at 11:54, Suparna Bhattacharya wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 27, 2004 at 07:53:01PM -0600, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> >
> > > Keith Owens <kaos@sgi.com> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > * How do we get a clean API to do polling mode I/O to disk?
> > >
> > > We hope to not have to. The current plan is to use kexec: at boot time, do

If you are prepared to say "dump device is IDE" the driver ends up
pretty tiny - maybe 4K for PIO mode.