[coreboot] resuming a kernel directly from coreboot?
Matt Price
matt.price at utoronto.ca
Mon Oct 20 17:42:36 CEST 2008
On Sat, 2008-10-18 at 21:27 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> On Fri, Oct 17, 2008 at 7:33 PM, Matt Price <matt.price at utoronto.ca> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2008-10-17 at 16:55 -0700, ron minnich wrote:
> >> I think this is possible, given someone who is motivated :-)
> >>
> > can you give me a sense of what "motivation" entails? where i should i
> > start digging to try to figure this out? thanks,
> >
>
> Where is the suspended kernel saved? What does kernel A do to boot
> Kernel B? Basic kexec?
>
> we need those three answers first.
>
here's what i think so far:
- the suspened image is saved to a swap partition, whose location needs
to be specified within the initramfs which will be part of the payload.
i don't know if that's a problem or not; presumably one would set it up
outside of any LVM, RAID, or more complex arrangement.
- as i understand it (and i'm not sure about this) kernels since 2.6.26
can use a hibernation image written by another kernel. So when there is
a valid suspended image in the right place, kernel A simply activates
the normal resume sequence, and we automatically end up with kernel B at
the end of the resume process.
- one would need some other process for booting kernel B in cases where
there's no good hibernation image -- like on the system's first boot! --
i guess one could use kexec in an initramfs script. I haven't put this
system together yet so I don't know whether there might be driver issues
using kexec.
i guess one could start with a proof-of-concept minimal kernel in qemu &
see if things work? i'm not sure how well the in-kernel suspend works
with qemu, though -- i've always used the "save state" option there...
anyway does that sound about right?
matt
> ron
>
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