Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Sep 20 2007 - 21:07:12 EST


On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Hi Andrew.
>
> On Thursday 20 September 2007 20:09:41 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Seems like good enough for -mm to me.
> >
> > Pavel
>
> Andrew, if I recall correctly, you said a while ago that you didn't want
> another hibernation implementation in the vanilla kernel. If you're going to
> consider merging this kexec code, will you also please consider merging
> TuxOnIce?
>

The theory is that kexec-based hibernation will mainly use preexisting
kexec code and will permit us to delete the existing hibernation
implementation.

That's different from replacing it.
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