Kernel Summit: kexec and fast booting

Kernel Summit: kexec and fast booting

Posted Jul 22, 2004 13:29 UTC (Thu) by PaulDickson (subscriber, #478)
In reply to: Kernel Summit: kexec and fast booting by flewellyn
Parent article: Kernel Summit: kexec and fast booting

Every time a system shuts down, the used devices can be recorded. With
enough reboots, a common list of the system's devices will become known.

This list can then be saved on the system's init ram disk so upon further
boots, only those devices are initialized.

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