Re: [IBM] RE: [BUG] Fusion MPT Base Driver initialization failure wit h kdum p

2005-07-26 Thread Vivek Goyal
On Mon, Jul 25, 2005 at 03:10:33PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote: > Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > If you don't stop the DMA engines before you boot the new kernel, the > > > addresses they have to send data to will now be random points in that > > > kernel's memory, leading to pot

Re: [IBM] RE: [BUG] Fusion MPT Base Driver initialization failure wit h kdum p

2005-07-25 Thread Andrew Morton
Vivek Goyal <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > If you don't stop the DMA engines before you boot the new kernel, the > > addresses they have to send data to will now be random points in that > > kernel's memory, leading to potential corruption of the new kernel > > image. > > [Copying it to fast

Re: [IBM] RE: [BUG] Fusion MPT Base Driver initialization failure wit h kdum p

2005-07-20 Thread Vivek Goyal
Quoting James Bottomley <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > On Fri, 2005-07-15 at 09:46 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > Kdump does not require any special support from the driver. After a > reboot > > a fresh kernel is booted and drivers are initialized again. The only > > difference here is that underlying dev