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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 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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