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From: "Pekka Enberg" <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>
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Hi Nigel,

On 6/28/06, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> wrote:
> It's because it's all so interconnected. Adding the modular infrastructure is
> useless without something to use the modules. Changing to use the pageflags
> functionality requires modifications in both the preparation of the image and
> in the I/O. There are bits that could be done incrementally, but they're
> minor. I did start with the same codebase that Pavel forked, but then did
> substantial rewrites in going from the betas to 1.0 and to 2.0.

Hmm, so, if you leave out the controversial in-kernel stuff like, user
interface bits, "extensible API", compression, and crypto, are you
saying there's nothing in suspend2 that can be merged separately?

                                        Pekka