David Woodhouse:
>
> smurf@noris.de said:
> > - load a module into the old kernel which can read a lot of internal data
> > structures from the current kernel into a buffer, and all driver setup,
> > and and and ...
> > - load the new kernel, with a module which imports the data from the
> > buffer, someplace into memory
>
> As internal data structures change between kernels, this marshalling code
> would need to be written each time to go from the old structures to the new.
>
Of course. Obviously the saved format needs to be somehow attributed so
that the restore code can find the data.
> That's a lot of work, even when the structures are vaguely related to each
> other, and not part of a complete subsystem rewrite.
>
What I said.
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