Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v5 | Date | Thu, 11 Oct 2007 12:17:57 +0200 |
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On Thursday, 11 October 2007 04:13, Huang, Ying wrote: > Kexec base hibernation has some potential advantages over uswsusp and > TuxOnIce (suspend2). Some most obvious advantages are:
Well, I have some doubts as far as the obviousness is concerned.
> 1. The hibernation image size can exceed half of memory size easily.
This is also possible with TuxOnIce.
> 2. The hibernation image can be written to and read from almost > anywhere, such as USB disk, NFS.
This is possible with uswsusp, at least in theory, probably with TuxOnIce too.
> 3. It is possible to eliminate freezer from kexec based hibernation > implementation.
This isn't true as long as we have not changed the handling of devices (which is in the works, but will take time).
> 4. Based on kexec/kdump implementation, the kernel code needed is > less.
Well, maybe.
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