On Mon, Jul 14, 2008 at 07:46:44AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Sat 2008-07-12 11:02:17, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi. > > > > On Fri, 2008-07-11 at 16:11 -0400, Vivek Goyal wrote: > > > Hi Andrew, > > > > > > We can use this patchset for hibernation, but can it be a better way of doing > > > things than what we already have, I don't know. Last time I had raised > > > this question and power people had various views. In the end, Pavel wanted > > > this patchset to be in. Pavel, can tell more here... > > > > > > To me this patchset looks interesting for couple of reasons. > > > > > > - Looks like an interesting feature where one can have a separate kernel > > > in memory and one can switch between the kernels on the fly. It can > > > be modified to have more than one kernel in memory at a time. > > > > I'm not sure how useful that would be, though. I already have > > functionality in TuxOnIce which allows you to resume a different image > > instead of powering off (roughly the same thing when combined with not > > removing the image after resuming). It was neat when testing to be > > able > > Beaty of kjump is that it is supposed to used on half-broken system, > so it is useful for debugging. > What do you mean by supposed to be used on half-broken system? Thanks Vivek
