Re: [PATCH 0/2][concept RFC] x86: BIOS-save kernel log to disk uponpanic

[Jeff Garzik]

On 01/25/2011 05:58 PM, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> "Not perfect" is really not good enough.  You're writing to the disk, so
> it *has* to be perfect.  That means dealing with having shared IDE/AHCI
> device and doing the right thing, and the possibility that the kernel
> has interrupts enabled, yadda yadda.
>
> In the end you end up with something that looks, again, like kexec/kdump.

Oh, quite agreed.  It wasn't an endorsement, just a reference :)

	Jeff



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