From owner-cvs-all Tue Mar 12 12: 9:19 2002 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from flood.ping.uio.no (flood.ping.uio.no [129.240.78.31]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 450C137B42F; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 12:09:07 -0800 (PST) Received: by flood.ping.uio.no (Postfix, from userid 2602) id D96BA5347; Tue, 12 Mar 2002 21:09:05 +0100 (CET) X-URL: http://www.ofug.org/~des/ X-Disclaimer: The views expressed in this message do not necessarily coincide with those of any organisation or company with which I am or have been affiliated. To: Peter Wemm Cc: Jake Burkholder , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sbin/savecore savecore.c References: <20020312195837.C5AFA380A@overcee.wemm.org> From: Dag-Erling Smorgrav Date: 12 Mar 2002 21:09:05 +0100 In-Reply-To: <20020312195837.C5AFA380A@overcee.wemm.org> Message-ID: Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/21.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Peter Wemm writes: > The problem is that it is that dumpsys() does nothing at all with regards > to doing the actual dumping. All of the dumping code, accessing physical > ram etc, is done in the MI drivers. I know, I know... > This is wrong. Agreed. > What needs to happen is that [...] Agreed. > It isn't a small job to do and test. No... but it needs to be done, and other platforms will benefit from it as well (faster dumps, for one thing). DES -- Dag-Erling Smorgrav - des@ofug.org To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message