Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: 2.1.125 Show stopper list: Draft | Date | Fri, 16 Oct 1998 10:33:12 +0100 | From | David Woodhouse <> |
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smurf@noris.de said: > - load a module into the old kernel which can read a lot of internal data > structures from the current kernel into a buffer, and all driver setup, > and and and ... > - load the new kernel, with a module which imports the data from the buffer, > someplace into memory
As internal data structures change between kernels, this marshalling code would need to be written each time to go from the old structures to the new.
That's a lot of work, even when the structures are vaguely related to each other, and not part of a complete subsystem rewrite.
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