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SubjectRe: Announce: dumpfs v0.01 - common RAS output API
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Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@engr.sgi.com> writes:

> On Tuesday, July 27, 2004 6:53 pm, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > Hmm. I think this will require one of the kernels to run at a
> > non-default address in physical memory.
>
> Right, and some platforms already support this, fortunately.
>
> > Which will largely depend on the quality of it's device drivers...
>
> I think this could end up being a good thing. It gives more people a stake in
> making sure that driver shutdown() routines work well.

Which actually is one of the items open for discussion currently.
For kexec on panic do we want to run the shutdown() routines?

Eric
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