From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:53:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:53:03 -0400 Received: from ebiederm.dsl.xmission.com ([166.70.28.69]:22857 "EHLO flinx.biederman.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Sun, 24 Jun 2001 23:52:54 -0400 To: David Lang Cc: John Nilsson , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop In-Reply-To: From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman) Date: 24 Jun 2001 21:48:20 -0600 In-Reply-To: Message-ID: User-Agent: Gnus/5.0808 (Gnus v5.8.8) Emacs/20.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org David Lang writes: > On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, John Nilsson wrote: > > 8: A way to change kernel without rebooting. I have no diskdrive or cddrive > > in my laptop so I often do drastic things when I install a new distribution. > > this is suggested every few months, the normal answer is that there is a > lot of stuff that the new kernel needs to know from the old one to make > the handoff sucessful, with potentially drastic changes of the kernel > internal structures it's a very difficult thing to do. What do you want this for? If you don't need to preserve user space I have code that already does this. If you need to preserver the user space it is a trickier problem. But I have heard rumors of a suspend to swap patch... Eric