Linux: Debating Kexec Hibernation

Posted by Sander_Marechal on Jul 20, 2007 5:48 AM EDT
KernelTrap; By Jeremy Andrews
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Ying Huang posted a new version of his hibernation patches that utilize kexec noting two changes,"1) the kexec jump implementation is put into the kexec/kdump framework instead of software suspend framework. The device and CPU state save/restore code of software suspend is called when needed; and 2) the same code path is used for both kexec a new kernel and jump back to original kernel." Andrew Morton noted that he was still interested however didn't intend to merge the patches right away.

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