Re: [PATCH 0/20] x86_64 Relocatable bzImage support (V4)

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Wed Mar 07 2007 - 18:15:50 EST


Hi.

On Thu, 2007-03-08 at 07:49 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 07:07 -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> > On Wed, 2007-03-07 at 12:27 +0530, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > Here is another attempt on x86_64 relocatable bzImage patches(V4). This
> > > patchset makes a bzImage relocatable and same kernel binary can be loaded
> > > and run from different physical addresses.
> >
> >
> > have these patches been extensively tested with various suspend
> > scenarios? (S1,S3,S4 in acpi speak or s2ram and s2disk in Linux speak)
>
> We did work on this for RHEL5, getting relocatable kernel support
> working fine with S4. While doing it and since, I've been running
> Suspend2 with the same patch.
>
> Since that work, Vivek has done more modifications, but I can confirm
> that the basic design is reliable with S4. Haven't tried S3, but can do.
> Will report back shortly.

S3 works okay here with a relocatable x86_64 kernel (2.6.20).

Regards,

Nigel

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