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Date:	Tue, 11 Mar 2008 17:09:32 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>
cc:	Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@...hat.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>, "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -mm] kexec jump -v9

On Wed, 12 Mar 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote:

> 3. Usability.
>
> Right now, kexec based hibernation looks quite complicated to configure,
> and the user is apparently going to have to remember to boot a different
> kernel or at least a different bootloader entry in order to resume. Not
> a plus. It would be good if you could find a way to use one bootloader
> entry, resuming if there's an image, booting normally if there's not.

I don't see any reason why this couldn't be done with an initrd to decide 
if you are doing a normal boot or a restore.

David Lang
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