From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com>
Cc: John Nilsson <pzycrow@hotmail.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop
Date: 24 Jun 2001 21:48:20 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m17ky1b4or.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106241325240.7535-100000@dlang.diginsite.com>
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.33.0106241325240.7535-100000@dlang.diginsite.com>
David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> writes:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, John Nilsson wrote:
> > 8: A way to change kernel without rebooting. I have no diskdrive or cddrive
> > in my laptop so I often do drastic things when I install a new distribution.
>
> this is suggested every few months, the normal answer is that there is a
> lot of stuff that the new kernel needs to know from the old one to make
> the handoff sucessful, with potentially drastic changes of the kernel
> internal structures it's a very difficult thing to do.
What do you want this for? If you don't need to preserve user space
I have code that already does this. If you need to preserver the user
space it is a trickier problem. But I have heard rumors of a suspend
to swap patch...
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-25 3:53 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-24 20:51 Some experience of linux on a Laptop John Nilsson
2001-06-24 20:35 ` David Lang
2001-06-25 3:48 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2001-06-25 6:09 ` David Lang
2001-06-25 8:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-24 21:08 ` Fabian Arias
2001-06-24 21:22 ` Android
2001-06-24 21:22 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-06-25 17:47 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-06-24 21:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:11 ` Jeff Chua
2001-06-24 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:11 ` William Stearns
2001-06-24 22:38 ` Hua Zhong
2001-06-25 3:45 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-24 21:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-24 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-24 21:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-24 22:26 ` Jeff Chua
2001-06-24 23:14 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-06-24 23:17 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-25 9:04 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-25 10:09 ` PALFFY Daniel
2001-06-27 9:07 ` Julien Laganier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-25 0:25 Dieter Nützel
2001-06-25 9:21 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-06-25 13:19 John Nilsson
[not found] <fa.inojkfv.1tiu4gb@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.gblj07v.1blumpa@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-29 20:12 ` John Golubenko
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