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Subject: Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.
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Date: 09 Nov 2002 19:18:39 -0700
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Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> On Sat, 2002-11-09 at 23:05, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > There are two cases I am seeing users wanting.
> > 1) Load a new kernel on panic.
> 
> Load a new *something* on panic. That something might be a new kernel
> but it might also be a kernel dump system like LKCD or a debugger front
> end for something like kdb, or a network dump module, or ...

And if it isn't a kernel why not load it as a module?  The code
has to come preloaded anyway.

Eric
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