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Reboot Linux faster using kexec (developerWorks)

Reboot Linux faster using kexec (developerWorks)

Posted May 5, 2004 15:23 UTC (Wed) by Wills (guest, #1813)
Parent article: Reboot Linux faster using kexec (developerWorks)

You covered kexec before in an LWN article in 2002 speculating that it might get merged with the main kernel - which still hasn't happened.


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Reboot Linux faster using kexec (developerWorks)

Posted May 6, 2004 4:26 UTC (Thu) by snitm (guest, #4031) [Link]

it will likely be merged if the core developer (Eric Biederman) takes some time to push it harder at Andrew Morton. Kexec has very minimal impact on the kernel and is quite a low risk patch. Randy Dunlap (at OSDL with Andrew) is quite active with maintaining current kexec patches as new releases of the 2.6 and 2.6-mm are made.

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