[Gllug] Crashes (owing to the heatwave?)

John Hearns jhearns at micromuse.com
Fri Aug 8 11:23:21 UTC 2003


Chris Bell wrote:

>
>removed by software routines, as long as those routines are not corrupted.
>Once the software routines are corupted anything can happen. Diagnostic
>routines in BIOS can do some checks on the computer hardware during booting,
>but once running everything must just work.
>  
>
True for microprocessors of course.
But if I'm not wrong, if you run a 2.6 kernel on an S390 mainframe you 
can have hot-swap CPUs.



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