Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:47:58 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:47:58 -0500 Received: from almesberger.net ([63.105.73.239]:38152 "EHLO host.almesberger.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Fri, 1 Nov 2002 17:47:57 -0500 Date: Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:54:10 -0300 From: Werner Almesberger To: Karim Yaghmour Cc: David Lang , Linux Kernel Mailing List , lkcd-general@lists.sourceforge.net, lkcd-devel@lists.sourceforge.net Subject: Re: What's left over. Message-ID: <20021101195410.G2599@almesberger.net> References:

<20021101192545.F2599@almesberger.net> <3DC30370.46637A01@opersys.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3DC30370.46637A01@opersys.com>; from karim@opersys.com on Fri, Nov 01, 2002 at 05:42:56PM -0500 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 823 Lines: 20 Karim Yaghmour wrote: > Why not just have a simple backup stripped-down "hardened" copy of Linux > lying around in a physical RAM region not used by the copy of Linux > actually running. Congratulations, you've just re-invented MCORE :-) That's exactly what they do on systems where rebooting through the firmware doesn't preserve RAM. - Werner -- _________________________________________________________________________ / Werner Almesberger, Buenos Aires, Argentina wa@almesberger.net / /_http://www.almesberger.net/____________________________________________/ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/