From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261328AbVFUNKk (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:10:40 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261315AbVFUNKj (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:10:39 -0400 Received: from [203.171.93.254] ([203.171.93.254]:9641 "EHLO cunningham.myip.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261383AbVFUNHg (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Jun 2005 09:07:36 -0400 Subject: Re: -mm -> 2.6.13 merge status (Suspend-to-disk) From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: ncunningham@cyclades.com To: Andrew Morton Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Marcelo Tosatti In-Reply-To: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> References: <20050620235458.5b437274.akpm@osdl.org> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Cycades Message-Id: <1119359295.10186.1150.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk Date: Tue, 21 Jun 2005 23:08:15 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi. (Marcelo: Copied for issue at the bottom). On Tue, 2005-06-21 at 16:54, Andrew Morton wrote: > CPU hotplug for x86 and x86_64 > > Not really useful on current hardware, but these provide > infrastructure which some power management patches need, and it seems > sensible to make the reference architecture support hotplug. Will merge. Yay. I'm not going to use it yet, but know Pavel wants it for the next one. > swsusp-on-SMP > > Will merge. > > kexec and kdump > > I guess we should merge these. > > I'm still concerned that the various device shutdown problems will > mean that the success rate for crashing kernels is not high enough for > kdump to be considered a success. In which case in six months time we'll > hear rumours about vendors shipping wholly different crashdump > implementations, which would be quite bad. > > But I think this has gone as far as it can go in -mm, so it's a bit of > a punt. No potential clashes with suspend code, I assume? > execute-in-place > > Will merge. Have the embedded guys commented on the usefulness of > this for execute-out-of-ROM? Switch roles for a mo and put my Cyclades hat on. Probably not useful to us at the moment, at least in the case of the products I work on. Marcelo? Regards, Nigel