Hi,
On Wed, Jul 02, 2003 at 03:26:44PM -0400, John Klos wrote:
> Now that it is working for recent systems, maybe this is a good time to
> ask: What does it do? I have a general idea (is it right?) that it allows
> one to reboot a new kernel without rebooting the whole system from the
> ROMs?
yes. Note minor problems: e.g., some SCSI interfaces (e.g. the A3000 builtin)
only reset on a full system reset - so you sometimes can't un-hang a machine
that way. Also, the kernels have to be sufficiently similar (at least for
the old implementation) to work.
Regards,
-is
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