From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 22:55:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 22:55:18 -0400 Received: from panic.ohr.gatech.edu ([130.207.47.194]:2512 "HELO havoc.gtf.org") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id ; Sat, 26 May 2001 22:55:09 -0400 Message-ID: <3B106C88.A2A763C8@mandrakesoft.com> Date: Sat, 26 May 2001 22:55:04 -0400 From: Jeff Garzik Organization: MandrakeSoft X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.77 [en] (X11; U; Linux 2.4.5-pre6 i686) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jonathan Morton Cc: cesar.da.silva@cyberdude.com, kernellist Subject: Re: Please help me fill in the blanks. In-Reply-To: <20010527021808.80979.qmail@web13407.mail.yahoo.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Jonathan Morton wrote: > > >> * Live Upgrade > > > >LOBOS will let one Linux kernel boot another, but that requires a boot > >step, so it is not a live upgrade. so, no, afaik > > If you build nearly everything (except, obviously what you need to boot) as > modules, you can unload modules, build new versions, and reload them. So, > you could say that partial support for "live upgrades" is included. I stand corrected, though I clearly know better: Modules are unloaded/reloaded all the time during my driver development :) -- Jeff Garzik | Disbelief, that's why you fail. Building 1024 | MandrakeSoft |