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    SubjectRe: Back to the future.
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    On Saturday, 28 April 2007 03:00, Matthew Garrett wrote:
    > On Fri, Apr 27, 2007 at 05:18:16PM -0700, Jeremy Fitzhardinge wrote:
    >
    > > Then you could use kexec for resume...
    >
    > While that would certainly be nifty, I think we're arguably starting
    > from the wrong point here. Why are we booting a kernel, trying to poke
    > the hardware back into some sort of mock-quiescent state, freeing memory
    > and then (finally) overwriting the entire contents of RAM rather than
    > just doing all of this from the bootloader? Given the time spent in
    > kernel setup and unpacking initramfs nowadays, I'm willing to bet it'd
    > still be faster even if you're stuck using int 13 on x86.

    Yes, that would be faster.

    > http://apcmag.com/5873/page14 suggests that Intel is looking into this,
    > but I haven't heard anything more yet. To the best of my knowledge, this
    > is also how Windows manages things.

    I think you're right.

    Greetings,
    Rafael
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