On Wednesday, 8 August 2007 16:48, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > On Wed, 08 Aug 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > I wish we loaded the kernel just once, maybe from the boot loader. > > > > Well, that's not so easy. That will work for the bare image, but if we want it > > to be compressed and/or encrypted, then the boot loader will need to > > contain all of the necessary code. > > Doing things right always have an associated cost, or we'd be doing it right > since day one... > > > I may be doable by using a special boot kernel with ACPI disabled and only > > as many drivers as required to load the image, but that will make it more > > difficult to set up and to recover from errors. > > Better than the walking bomb we have now. When waking from suspend-to-disk, > we should not overwrite ANY non-kernel data which has ties to external > systems (the hardware, the firmware). Instead, we should re-init everything > (re-init hardware to make sure we know in which state it is, re-init > ourselves, to make sure we match the firmware and hardware state), as if we > were booting a cold system in the first place. Yes, we've already had an agreement about that on linux-pm, now the problem is to implement it and not to break things in the process ... -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth ------------------------------------------------------------------------- This SF.net email is sponsored by: Splunk Inc. Still grepping through log files to find problems? Stop. Now Search log events and configuration files using AJAX and a browser. Download your FREE copy of Splunk now >> http://get.splunk.com/ _______________________________________________ ibm-acpi-devel mailing list ibm-acpi-devel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/ibm-acpi-devel
