Date: Tue, 28 Jul 1998 23:38:52 -0700 From: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au> To: asami@cs.berkeley.edu (Satoshi Asami) Cc: committers@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: very quick reboot Message-ID: <199807290638.XAA00725@antipodes.cdrom.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 28 Jul 1998 18:46:04 PDT." <199807290146.SAA00693@silvia.HIP.Berkeley.EDU>
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> Hi fellow FreeBSD developers, > > I'm wondering if it is possible to reboot a computer without actually > resetting the hardware. Assuming I want to reboot with the same > kernel (rebooting with different kernels obviously present more > challenges), can't I just re-load the initialized data and jump to the > address where the kernel starts executing? You'd want to jump past some of the early setup code in locore that expects to retrieve information passed in by the bootblocks, but apart from that I can't think of anything else, no. -- \\ Sometimes you're ahead, \\ Mike Smith \\ sometimes you're behind. \\ mike@smith.net.au \\ The race is long, and in the \\ msmith@freebsd.org \\ end it's only with yourself. \\ msmith@cdrom.com
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