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SubjectRe: holy grail
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On Mon, 2002-12-30 at 01:32, Werner Almesberger wrote:
> Yes, but there are more applications than improving overall uptime.
> E.g. during development or other testing, it would be convenient to
> be able to switch back and forth between distinct kernels, without
> necessarily taking down the entire machine. Likewise for trivial
> hardware changes.

Suspend to disk
Change hardware
Resume

That much sort of works. An Intel guy wrote a very simple piece of code
I need to clean up into Linux format which rescans the pci bus and
generates insert/remove events for any device that took a walk.

Alan

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