Re: Hibernation Redesign

Nick Piggin
2007-07-10T01:30:15Z

Al Boldi wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:

>>In the end, you'll get rid of freezer problems, but will have two
>>kernels to care about, and certainly more conventional design. I do
>>not think I have time to try that (and don't think freezer problems
>>are _that_ bad in the first place), but some interested soul could
>>certainly try it.
>
>
> Who said we need two kernels? You could inline it like Xen, which would give
> you one kernel with two modes: normal and hibernate.

kexec can boot the currently running kernel image. There is no
need for two kernels.

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