Stefan Reinauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > * Lu, Yinghai <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> [061211 19:59]: >> Is the suspend be the job of OS instead of firmware? > > LinuxBIOS' effort has indeed been the other way around: Move everything > into the OS that is not necessarily a task of the firmware. > > Since we have this no-callback paradigm in the LLFW we should probably > stick with that. > >> I wonder if kexec or kdump could load another kernel to dump previous >> kernel to disk partition or file. > > Why would you want to load another kernel first? Can you return from a > kexec call and have the original kernel dump the virtual environment of > the freshly loaded one?
Nope kexec has no provision for returning. There is some small argument that standing outside the kernel might make the problem easier, but I don't think that helps much. Eric -- linuxbios mailing list [email protected] http://www.openbios.org/mailman/listinfo/linuxbios
