Re: FC4 Test2, x86_64 and NVidia locking the system hard

[Alan Cox <alan redhat com>]

On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 11:45:44AM -0400, Karl Bellve wrote:
> Which I did, but I thought it was unusual that the kernel can be brought 
> down by a misbehaving module but I know nothing of kernel design either.

Kernel modules all run as privileged code so they can bring down the entire
system quite easily.