From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Subject: [PATCH -mm 0/4] Hibernation: Arbitrary boot kernel support on x86_64 (rev. 2) Date: Mon, 27 Aug 2007 23:31:27 +0200 Message-ID: <200708272331.28584.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-2" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: Johannes Berg , pm list , Andi Kleen , LKML List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi, The first two patches in this series make it possible to restore the memory state from a hibernation image with the help of a kernel different from the image one. The first patch adds the generic, platform independent code needed for that. The second patch implements the idea on x86_64. The remaining two patches remove some implicit assumptions about the boot and image kernels from the x86_64 restore code. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth