On Thursday, 11 October 2007 04:13, Huang, Ying wrote: > Kexec base hibernation has some potential advantages over uswsusp and > TuxOnIce (suspend2). Some most obvious advantages are:
Well, I have some doubts as far as the obviousness is concerned. > 1. The hibernation image size can exceed half of memory size easily. This is also possible with TuxOnIce. > 2. The hibernation image can be written to and read from almost > anywhere, such as USB disk, NFS. This is possible with uswsusp, at least in theory, probably with TuxOnIce too. > 3. It is possible to eliminate freezer from kexec based hibernation > implementation. This isn't true as long as we have not changed the handling of devices (which is in the works, but will take time). > 4. Based on kexec/kdump implementation, the kernel code needed is > less. Well, maybe. Greetings, Rafael - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
