* Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > ok, just to make sure we are talking about the same thing. Do you > > mean we can restore an image saved by v2.6.12 into v2.6.24? I.e. a > > 2.6.24 kernel will be able to run a 2.6.12 kernel's hibernation > > image, with all the kernel internal data from v2.6.12, etc? No way > > can that work. > > Well, not exactly. The support for different boot and image kernels > has only been merged recently, but we can use the current git to > restore 2.6.24-rc6-mm1, for example. > > The trick is to pass a little additional information in the image > header that can be used by the boot kernel to locate the entry point > to the image kernel and the image kernel's page tables. ok - i thought you meant that there's a general capability to resume across kernel versions. (which would be close to impossible without some major surgery.) btw., in what way is this different from kexec? Ingo _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
