Re: Faster reboots (and a better way of taking crashdumps?)

Alan Cox
2002-04-16T22:42:28Z

> > I totally agree. Walking the driver tree is exactly what I want.
> > Disabling bus masters is just a quick hack to rule out a DMA killing
> > your linux booting linux.
>
> Is there easy way to disable all busmasters? It might help suspend-to-disk
> and suspend-to-ram to work well until proper support is done...

Well there is an impolite way - just flip all the master bits off. How
the device reacts is a more complex question. Really you want to ask each
device to shut up