Re: Please help me fill in the blanks.

[Jeff Garzik]

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
:)

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