From: Daniel Phillips <phillips@phunq.net>
To: "Chris Friesen" <cfriesen@nortel.com>
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] Ramback: faster than a speeding bullet
Date: Tue, 11 Mar 2008 11:56:50 -0800
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On Tuesday 11 March 2008 10:26, Chris Friesen wrote:
> I have experienced many 2.6 crashes due to software flaws.  Hung 
> processes leading to watchdog timeouts, bad kernel pointers, kernel 
> deadlock, etc.
> 
> When designing for reliable embedded systems it's not enough to handwave 
> away the possibility of software flaws.

Indeed.  You fix them.  Which 2.6 kernel version failed for you, what
made it fail, and does the latest version still fail?

If Linux is not reliable then we are doomed and I do not care about
whether my ramback fails because I will just slit my wrists anyway.
How about you?

Daniel
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