Re: [PATCH 0/20] x86_64 Relocatable bzImage support (V4)

[Vivek Goyal <vgoyal@in.ibm.com>]

On Thu, Mar 08, 2007 at 10:15:02AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 07:49 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 07:07 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:27 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > > Hi,
> > > > 
> > > > Here is another attempt on x86_64 relocatable bzImage patches(V4). This
> > > > patchset makes a bzImage relocatable and same kernel binary can be loaded
> > > > and run from different physical addresses.
> > > 
> > > 
> > > have these patches been extensively tested with various suspend
> > > scenarios? (S1,S3,S4 in acpi speak or s2ram and s2disk in Linux speak)
> > 
> > We did work on this for RHEL5, getting relocatable kernel support
> > working fine with S4. While doing it and since, I've been running
> > Suspend2 with the same patch.
> > 
> > Since that work, Vivek has done more modifications, but I can confirm
> > that the basic design is reliable with S4. Haven't tried S3, but can do.
> > Will report back shortly.
> 
> S3 works okay here with a relocatable x86_64 kernel (2.6.20).
> 

Ok. Got hold of a system which supports Standby mode (S1) and it works fine
with 2.6.21-rc2 + relocatable patchset.

Thanks
Vivek