From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Cc: Jeremy Fitzhardinge <jeremy@goop.org>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Pekka J Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>,
LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.
Date: Sat, 28 Apr 2007 03:08:53 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200704280308.54398.rjw@sisk.pl> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070428010043.GA21136@srcf.ucam.org>
On Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:00, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:18:16PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
>
> > Then you could use kexec for resume...
>
> While that would certainly be nifty, I think we're arguably starting
> from the wrong point here. Why are we booting a kernel, trying to poke
> the hardware back into some sort of mock-quiescent state, freeing memory
> and then (finally) overwriting the entire contents of RAM rather than
> just doing all of this from the bootloader? Given the time spent in
> kernel setup and unpacking initramfs nowadays, I'm willing to bet it'd
> still be faster even if you're stuck using int 13 on x86.
Yes, that would be faster.
> http://apcmag.com/5873/page14 suggests that Intel is looking into this,
> but I haven't heard anything more yet. To the best of my knowledge, this
> is also how Windows manages things.
I think you're right.
Greetings,
Rafael
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-04-28 1:04 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 136+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-04-26 6:04 Back to the future Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 7:28 ` Pekka Enberg
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2007-04-26 7:42 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 8:17 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-26 9:28 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 17:29 ` Luca Tettamanti
2007-04-26 16:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-26 17:03 ` Xavier Bestel
2007-04-26 17:34 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-26 20:08 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 20:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-26 20:50 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27 0:10 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-27 10:21 ` Daniel Pittman
2007-04-27 23:19 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 21:38 ` Theodore Tso
2007-04-27 10:10 ` Christoph Hellwig
2007-04-26 22:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-26 22:20 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 23:15 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 7:51 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-26 17:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-26 18:22 ` Chase Venters
2007-04-26 18:50 ` David Lang
2007-04-26 19:56 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27 4:52 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27 6:08 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27 6:18 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27 6:29 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27 6:34 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27 6:50 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27 7:03 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27 7:24 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27 9:50 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-04-27 10:12 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-27 19:07 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-04-28 9:22 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-28 13:37 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-05-03 12:06 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-04 21:52 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-05-05 9:16 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-05 12:02 ` Indan Zupancic
2007-04-28 10:35 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 18:43 ` David Lang
2007-04-28 19:37 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 21:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 21:44 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 22:04 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 22:08 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 22:41 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 22:26 ` David Lang
2007-04-27 23:21 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 23:01 ` David Lang
2007-04-28 0:02 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 23:17 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-27 23:45 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 23:57 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-27 23:50 ` David Lang
2007-04-28 0:40 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28 6:58 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-04-28 9:16 ` Pekka J Enberg
2007-04-28 18:28 ` David Lang
2007-05-03 17:18 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07 2:13 ` David Lang
2007-05-07 3:33 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-05-07 12:48 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07 12:52 ` Oliver Neukum
2007-05-07 14:37 ` david
2007-05-07 19:51 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-07 19:55 ` david
2007-05-07 20:38 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-08 17:36 ` Disconnect
2007-04-27 23:59 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28 0:18 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-05-05 11:42 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-28 0:50 ` Paul Mackerras
2007-04-28 1:00 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 1:12 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28 0:54 ` David Lang
2007-04-28 1:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 2:51 ` Daniel Hazelton
2007-04-28 7:00 ` progress meter in s2disk (was Re: Back to the future.) Pavel Machek
2007-04-28 8:50 ` Back to the future Pavel Machek
2007-04-28 9:24 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 16:28 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28 17:50 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 21:25 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-28 23:03 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 23:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2007-04-29 0:01 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-29 5:01 ` Bojan Smojver
2007-04-29 3:43 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-29 8:57 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-29 8:59 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-29 9:32 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-29 8:23 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-29 9:22 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 18:32 ` David Lang
2007-04-28 19:14 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 18:44 ` David Lang
2007-05-03 15:25 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-27 22:07 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-28 1:03 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-28 1:15 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 0:51 ` David Lang
2007-04-28 1:25 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-05-03 15:10 ` Pavel Machek
2007-05-03 16:53 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-05-04 7:52 ` David Greaves
2007-05-04 13:27 ` Kyle Moffett
2007-04-28 0:18 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-04-28 1:00 ` Matthew Garrett
2007-04-28 1:05 ` Jeremy Fitzhardinge
2007-05-03 15:14 ` Pavel Machek
2007-06-01 19:00 ` Eric W. Biederman
2007-04-28 1:08 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2007-04-27 20:44 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-28 19:09 ` Bill Davidsen
2007-04-26 22:40 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-27 5:41 ` Pekka Enberg
2007-04-27 14:55 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-27 21:39 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-26 22:42 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-26 22:24 ` David Lang
2007-04-26 23:12 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-26 22:49 ` David Lang
2007-04-26 23:27 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-26 22:56 ` David Lang
2007-04-27 0:23 ` Olivier Galibert
2007-04-27 12:49 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-27 21:26 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-27 22:12 ` David Lang
2007-04-26 8:38 ` Jan Engelhardt
2007-04-26 9:33 ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-28 0:28 ` Bojan Smojver
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2007-04-28 11:04 ` Bodo Eggert
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