Re: What's left over.

Werner Almesberger (wa@almesberger.net)
Fri, 1 Nov 2002 19:54:10 -0300

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

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