From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date: Thu, 20 Sep 2007 18:06:23 -0700
Subject: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump
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On Fri, 21 Sep 2007 10:24:34 +1000 Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> wrote:

> Hi Andrew.
> 
> On Thursday 20 September 2007 20:09:41 Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Seems like good enough for -mm to me.
> > 
> > 									Pavel
> 
> Andrew, if I recall correctly, you said a while ago that you didn't want 
> another hibernation implementation in the vanilla kernel. If you're going to 
> consider merging this kexec code, will you also please consider merging 
> TuxOnIce?
> 

The theory is that kexec-based hibernation will mainly use preexisting
kexec code and will permit us to delete the existing hibernation
implementation.

That's different from replacing it.