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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
