Bug 458809

Summary:	Support kexec reboot from GUI
Product:	[Plasma] plasmashell	Reporter:	tomashnyk
Component:	Session Management	Assignee:	David Edmundson <kde>
Status:	CONFIRMED ---
Severity:	wishlist	CC:	nate, plasma-bugs-null
Priority:	NOR
Version First Reported In:	5.27.5
Target Milestone:	1.0
Platform:	Other
OS:	Linux
Latest Commit:		Version Fixed In:
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Description tomashnyk 2022-09-06 19:37:01 UTC

I would like to be able to reboot from GUI using kexec.

kexec is a method to skip BIOS/UEFI during reboot, which can seriously speed up reboot (on my system, it about halves it, BIOS takes about 9 seconds and userspace as much).

It works on systems using systemd-boot pretty much for free.

Hibernate is already an action that fails on a lot of systems (it needs a swap file/partition larger than RAM) and yet is exposed.

Codewise, I think it would need to be implemented from https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/libkworkspace/sessionmanagementbackend.cpp

all the way up to https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/applets/kicker/plugin/systementry.cpp
or https://invent.kde.org/plasma/plasma-workspace/-/blob/master/applets/kicker/plugin/systementry.cpp

(plus a new icon would be handy)

Is such a feature something that would be accepted?

Comment 1 Nate Graham 2022-09-09 04:41:49 UTC

Sounds cool. We could call it "fast boot" or something.