Re: 3.0 wishlist

Craig Milo Rogers (rogers@ISI.EDU)
Tue, 20 Jan 1998 15:44:49 -0800

>Going over the network might be safe, since you could disable
>disk access first. Maybe use a separate network stack with a
>really simple non-standard (not IP) protocal. It could use
>Ethernet broadcast and forget any streaming features.

If you have a network available, etc, a simple IP stack isn't
hard. You could reuse the guts of a TFTP-based netboot package: do a
TFTP write to the server for the dump, then a TFTP read to boot in the
new kernel. Perhaps there could be some arrangement for the network
dump/reboot code to reside in protected (unmapped?) memory until
needed?

Craig Milo Rogers