Re: What's left over.

[Karim Yaghmour]

Werner Almesberger wrote:
> 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.

Oh well, can't have a freshmeat db in my head I guess ;) That said,
I like this approach since you don't need to care about new drivers
and so on ... but since it's already out there I guess it's
advantages have been covered elsewhere ...

Karim

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                 Karim Yaghmour
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