On Thursday, 3 of January 2008, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > >> I suppose we can always disable this when we start to support hardware > >> changing over hibernate (I have ideas in this direction - memory cold > >> plugging, for a start). > > > > Well, if we support such features, we won't be following ACPI any more. > > Mmm. Apparently I'm not as focused on specs as you :). > > I was starting to think through whether it could make for a new and much > faster was to boot live cds - something along the lines of complete > redetection of hardware and memory cold plugging. Of course it's only in > the 'I wonder if this would be possible' stage at the mo, but seemed at > least feasible - keep the e820 tables from boot, make _init routines not > get thrown away and do something like the kexec device shutdown etc > around an atomic restore. > > I know there'd be limitations, but perhaps worth thinking about... Well, what if the new e820 map is incompatible with the old one? Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
