[shr-u] wakeuptime, was Re: 2.6.31 is out,where is my ultimatekernel?

Sebastian Krzyszkowiak seba.dos1 at gmail.com
Wed Sep 16 18:14:32 CEST 2009


On 9/16/09, Russell Dwiggins <undrwater at verizon.net> wrote:
> Quick question (or maybe not): My understanding of the bootloader is that it
> passes the system startup to the kernel, and goes home for beer.  It seems
> that it still has a job to do after the kernel starts...what is it doing?  I
> only ever remember grub being involved in a suspend situation when I was
> using suspend to disk.
>
> [Russell Dwiggins]

u-boot isn't only for FR what GRUB is for PC. It does also what BIOS
does on regular desktops. Qi, in contrast, lets Linux kernel doing
such things.

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Sebastian Krzyszkowiak
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