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SubjectRe: Back to the future.
Hi!

> > While that would certainly be nifty, I think we're arguably starting
> > from the wrong point here. Why are we booting a kernel, trying to poke
> > the hardware back into some sort of mock-quiescent state, freeing memory
> > and then (finally) overwriting the entire contents of RAM rather than
> > just doing all of this from the bootloader?

Doing it from the bootloader sounds attractive... but it is lot of
work. I'm essentially using linux as a bootloader.

Patch for grub welcome.

> Sure, you could make suspend generate a complete bootable kernel image
> containing all RAM. Doesn't sound too hard to me. You know, from over
> here on the sidelines.

Ah, so we have a volunteer :-).
Pavel
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