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

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Date:	Mon, 24 Sep 2007 19:37:10 +0200
From:	Thomas Meyer <thomas@...3r.de>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
CC:	nigel@...pend2.net, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.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

Andrew Morton schrieb:
> 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
Before replacing existing hibernation implementations, someone should
fix kexec for i386 (maybe others?) EFI systems...


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