From: ebiederm@xmission.com (Eric W. Biederman)
To: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: pzycrow@hotmail.com (John Nilsson), linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop
Date: 24 Jun 2001 21:45:23 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <m1bsndb4to.fsf@frodo.biederman.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E15EHkU-0000Wu-00@the-village.bc.nu>
In-Reply-To: <E15EHkU-0000Wu-00@the-village.bc.nu>
Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:
> > 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.
>
> Thats actually an incredibly hard problem to solve. The only people who do
> this level of stuff are some of the telephony folks, and the expensive
> tandem non-stop boxes.
If you don't care about preserving user space it is a solved problem.
I have a patch that is currently up to 2.4.2 that works on both alpha,
and x86. Porting to other archtietures also looks very simple.
I wrote it so I can use the linux kernel in conjunction with some
use space code as a bootloader.
Eric
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-06-25 3:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 29+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-06-24 20:51 Some experience of linux on a Laptop John Nilsson
2001-06-24 20:35 ` David Lang
2001-06-25 3:48 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-25 6:09 ` David Lang
2001-06-25 8:38 ` Eric W. Biederman
2001-06-24 21:08 ` Fabian Arias
2001-06-24 21:22 ` Android
2001-06-24 21:22 ` Andrzej Krzysztofowicz
2001-06-25 17:47 ` Joseph Pingenot
2001-06-24 21:48 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:11 ` Jeff Chua
2001-06-24 22:15 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:11 ` William Stearns
2001-06-24 22:38 ` Hua Zhong
2001-06-25 3:45 ` Eric W. Biederman [this message]
2001-06-24 21:57 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-24 22:12 ` Alan Cox
2001-06-24 22:27 ` Daniel Phillips
2001-06-24 21:59 ` Rik van Riel
2001-06-24 22:26 ` Jeff Chua
2001-06-24 23:14 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-06-24 23:17 ` Keith Owens
2001-06-25 9:04 ` Helge Hafting
2001-06-25 10:09 ` PALFFY Daniel
2001-06-27 9:07 ` Julien Laganier
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-06-25 0:25 Dieter Nützel
2001-06-25 9:21 ` Luigi Genoni
2001-06-25 13:19 John Nilsson
[not found] <fa.inojkfv.1tiu4gb@ifi.uio.no>
[not found] ` <fa.gblj07v.1blumpa@ifi.uio.no>
2001-06-29 20:12 ` John Golubenko
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