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Subject: Re: [lkcd-devel] Re: What's left over.
From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
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On Sun, 2002-11-10 at 02:18, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> > 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.

You may want to load it as a module or via syscall request. Doesn't
matter which really. But you do want all the intelligence in the loaded
code not in the reboot stub of the dying code.

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