linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

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Date:	Fri, 21 Sep 2007 11:19:59 +1000
From:	Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@...a.org.au>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	nigel@...pend2.net, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@....edu>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	Kexec Mailing List <kexec@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Hi.

On Friday 21 September 2007 11:06:23 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham 
<nigel@...el.suspend2.net> wrote:
> 
> > Hi Andrew.
> > 
> > On Thursday 20 September 2007 20:09:41 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > Seems like good enough for -mm to me.
> > > 
> > > 									Pavel
> > 
> > Andrew, if I recall correctly, you said a while ago that you didn't want 
> > another hibernation implementation in the vanilla kernel. If you're going 
to 
> > consider merging this kexec code, will you also please consider merging 
> > TuxOnIce?
> > 
> 
> The theory is that kexec-based hibernation will mainly use preexisting
> kexec code and will permit us to delete the existing hibernation
> implementation.
> 
> That's different from replacing it.

TuxOnIce doesn't remove the existing implementation either. It can 
transparently replace it, but you can enable/disable that at compile time.

Regards,

Nigel
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