On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 11:45 -0400, Sam Varshavchik wrote:
> Patrick O'Callaghan writes:
> 
> > On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 01:51 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
> > 
> > > Somewhere I read that they were working on the ability
> > > to  start a new kernel after a dnf upgrde without rebooting.
> > > That ever happen?
> > 
> > There is a long-standing project that aims to do something like that (
> > https://github.com/dynup/kpatch), but AFAIK it's not production quality
> > so far. Personally, I'm sceptical that it will ever be useful except in
> > very constrained conditions. For one thing, it's not clear that there's
> > much demand for it.
> 
> No, that's not what this is trying to do. Not even close.
> 
> This project attempts to implement the ability to patch the running kernel,  
> in a number of limited situations.
> 
> This is nowhere close to loading a brand new kernel and somehow seamlessly  
> switching to it.

Fair enough. I was never that interested so didn't take the trouble to
read the details.

poc
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