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

Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21T01:19:59Z

Hi.

On Friday 21 September 2007 11:06:23 Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham
<nigel@nigel.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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