Date: Tue, 25 Jan 2005 11:19:40 +0900 From: takawata@jp.freebsd.org To: Christian Laursen <xi@borderworlds.dk> Cc: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Resuming from a crashdump Message-ID: <200501250219.LAA27674@axe-inc.co.jp> In-Reply-To: Your message of "24 Jan 2005 20:22:27 %2B0100." <86pszu639o.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk>
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In message <86pszu639o.fsf@borg.borderworlds.dk>, Christian Laursen wrote: >I was thinking about software suspend and got this crazy idea. Not so crazy Idea. >I have no idea if this is possible or total madness but here >goes anyway. > >The idea would be to force the system to "crash" and make a >dump on a dedicated partition. On boot after initializing devices >but before mounting /, the kernel would check that partition and >if it found a dump there restore it to the machine's memory, >reinitialize devices and continue where it left off. > >Any thoughts? Could this be done or would an entirely different >approach be better? OS-initiated ACPI S4 sleep may be implemented in the way like this.
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