Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: Some experience of linux on a Laptop | From | (Eric W. Biederman) | Date | 24 Jun 2001 21:48:20 -0600 |
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David Lang <david.lang@digitalinsight.com> writes:
> On Sun, 24 Jun 2001, John Nilsson wrote: > > 8: A way to change kernel without rebooting. I have no diskdrive or cddrive > > in my laptop so I often do drastic things when I install a new distribution. > > this is suggested every few months, the normal answer is that there is a > lot of stuff that the new kernel needs to know from the old one to make > the handoff sucessful, with potentially drastic changes of the kernel > internal structures it's a very difficult thing to do.
What do you want this for? If you don't need to preserve user space I have code that already does this. If you need to preserver the user space it is a trickier problem. But I have heard rumors of a suspend to swap patch...
Eric
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