Re: writing OOPS/panic info to nvram?

[Alan Cox]

On Wed, 2002-09-04 at 15:08, J.A. Magallon wrote:
> Instead of swap, let user specify a partition to raw dump there. If a user
> wants crash dumps, he has to leave some small disk space free and give an
> option like "dump=/dev/hda7".

With what will you write it - not the linux block layer thats for sure.
Ingo has patches for doing network dumps which are kind of neat