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nicman24@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

• Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Ohhhh… I remember reading years ago about a tool in development to perform in-place kernel reloads, but I never heard of it being completed. Thanks for the info, I’ll be digging into this!

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  • nicman24@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

    that most likely is kpatch. kexec is a bit different but not really

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    • Shdwdrgn@mander.xyz ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

      Thanks for that, because I just realized kexec doesn’t work with systemd. More rabbit-holes to go down!

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      • nicman24@kbin.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

        i think it does with the latest version

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• saiarcot895@programming.dev ⁨1⁩ ⁨year⁩ ago

  Second this. If you don’t need to go into the UEFI or do a full hardware reboot, and you’re running Linux, kexec will be much better for you.

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