Patrick O'Callaghan writes:
> On Sat, 2020-09-26 at 01:51 -0700, ToddAndMargo via users wrote:
>
> > Somewhere I read that they were working on the ability
> > to start a new kernel after a dnf upgrde without rebooting.
> > That ever happen?
>
> There is a long-standing project that aims to do something like that (
>
https://github.com/dynup/kpatch), but AFAIK it's not production quality
> so far. Personally, I'm sceptical that it will ever be useful except in
> very constrained conditions. For one thing, it's not clear that there's
> much demand for it.
No, that's not what this is trying to do. Not even close.
This project attempts to implement the ability to patch the running kernel,
in a number of limited situations.
This is nowhere close to loading a brand new kernel and somehow seamlessly
switching to it.
Fair enough. I was never that interested so didn't take the trouble to
read the details.
poc