Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status (Suspend-to-disk)

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

(Marcelo: Copied for issue at the bottom).

On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 16:54, Andrew Morton wrote:
> CPU hotplug for x86 and x86_64
> 
>     Not really useful on current hardware, but these provide
>     infrastructure which some power management patches need, and it seems
>     sensible to make the reference architecture support hotplug.  Will merge.

Yay. I'm not going to use it yet, but know Pavel wants it for the next
one.

> swsusp-on-SMP
> 
>     Will merge.
> 
> kexec and kdump
> 
>     I guess we should merge these.
> 
>     I'm still concerned that the various device shutdown problems will
>     mean that the success rate for crashing kernels is not high enough for
>     kdump to be considered a success.  In which case in six months time we'll
>     hear rumours about vendors shipping wholly different crashdump
>     implementations, which would be quite bad.
> 
>     But I think this has gone as far as it can go in -mm, so it's a bit of
>     a punt.

No potential clashes with suspend code, I assume?

> execute-in-place
> 
>     Will merge.  Have the embedded guys commented on the usefulness of
>     this for execute-out-of-ROM?

Switch roles for a mo and put my Cyclades hat on. Probably not useful to
us at the moment, at least in the case of the products I work on.
Marcelo?

Regards,

Nigel

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