From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932565AbXGLU3y (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:29:54 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756046AbXGLU3r (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:29:47 -0400 Received: from SMTP.andrew.cmu.edu ([128.2.10.83]:35952 "EHLO smtp.andrew.cmu.edu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755789AbXGLU3q (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:29:46 -0400 From: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Hibernation Redesign References: <200707081737.21932.a1426z@gawab.com> <87644rcc7a.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> <46954212.7060105@rtr.ca> <200707120117.24549.a1426z@gawab.com> X-Habeas-SWE-9: mark in spam to . X-Habeas-SWE-8: Message (HCM) and not spam. Please report use of this X-Habeas-SWE-7: warrant mark warrants that this is a Habeas Compliant X-Habeas-SWE-6: email in exchange for a license for this Habeas X-Habeas-SWE-5: Sender Warranted Email (SWE) (tm). The sender of this X-Habeas-SWE-4: Copyright 2002 Habeas (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-3: like Habeas SWE (tm) X-Habeas-SWE-2: brightly anticipated X-Habeas-SWE-1: winter into spring Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 16:29:45 -0400 In-Reply-To: <200707120117.24549.a1426z@gawab.com> (Al Boldi's message of "Thu\, 12 Jul 2007 01\:17\:24 +0300") Message-ID: <87ir8p2wna.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> User-Agent: Gnus/5.110006 (No Gnus v0.6) Emacs/22.0.990 (gnu/linux) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Al Boldi writes: > Mark Lord wrote: >> Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: >> > I'll certainly admit the kexec idea is vaporware currently, > Your idea is starting to become a reality with this thread: > "[PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation" Someone else pointed out that the idea was actually proposed by Andrew Morton over a year ago, but it didn't get very much consideration then. It is good to see that quite a few people are thinking about it now, though, and that Ying Huang has started writing some code. -- Jeremy Maitin-Shepard