[parisc-linux] Getting back to the pdc prompt from Never Never Land

[Richard J. Rauenzahn]

> We catch the TOC trap and force a crash dump and reboot.  This way you can
> push the little TOC button on the front/back of the machine and have the
> machine take a dump and reboot.  This approach should work very early in
> the kernel boot process provided you use the PDC to do the crash dump.
> This is *not* what TOC was intended for and isn't what HP-UX does, so HP
> people may not approve :-)

I don't understand --

Are you saying HP-UX doesn't use the TOC button to cause a dump and
reboot?  That's exactly what happens on HP-UX!

Rich