Testers wanted: Software Suspend for 2.4

Testers wanted: Software Suspend for 2.4

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi all.

If you're using a 2.4 kernel and haven't tried software suspend, or
haven't tried it in a while, would you please consider giving it a try?
The patches can be found on sourceforge.net/projects/swsusp. You'll want
to download beta19 and then add the patches from the devel section
beta19-0[1-8]. All feedback is welcome on the swsusp list. You'll find a
link to it by going to the homepage from there.

This is the code I'm currently completing a port of to 2.5, so I'll
shortly (DV) be after testers for the 2.5 version too.

Regards,

Nigel

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Re: Testers wanted: Software Suspend for 2.4

[Rene Rebe]

Hi.

Thanks for your work!

I just manged to suspend and resume a freshly booted 2.4.20 + "your
latest patch" system ;-)

I had to read the kernel source a hour to do so, because I use devfs
and naively used resume=/dev/ide/host0/.... which obiously does not
work.

For now you might add to the docs that devfs users simply have to use
the corresponding old /dev/hdX name. If I have too much time I'll take
a look to make swsuspend devfs aware. But this might not be that soon
:-(

I'll report after more testing.

On: Wed, 19 Mar 2003 09:44:15 +1200,
    Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@clear.net.nz> wrote:
> Hi all.
> 
> If you're using a 2.4 kernel and haven't tried software suspend, or
> haven't tried it in a while, would you please consider giving it a try?
> The patches can be found on sourceforge.net/projects/swsusp. You'll want
> to download beta19 and then add the patches from the devel section
> beta19-0[1-8]. All feedback is welcome on the swsusp list. You'll find a
> link to it by going to the homepage from there.
> 
> This is the code I'm currently completing a port of to 2.5, so I'll
> shortly (DV) be after testers for the 2.5 version too.
> 
> Regards,
> 
> Nigel

Have fun,
- René

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Re: Testers wanted: Software Suspend for 2.4

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> Thanks for your work!
> 
> I just manged to suspend and resume a freshly booted 2.4.20 + "your
> latest patch" system ;-)
> 
> I had to read the kernel source a hour to do so, because I use devfs
> and naively used resume=/dev/ide/host0/.... which obiously does not
> work.
> 
> For now you might add to the docs that devfs users simply have to use
> the corresponding old /dev/hdX name. If I have too much time I'll take
> a look to make swsuspend devfs aware. But this might not be that soon
> :-(

Is root= devfs aware? If yes fix swsusp
else fix docs.
				Pavel
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Re: Testers wanted: Software Suspend for 2.4

[Rene Rebe]

Hi.

root= "seems" to be devfs aware. It always simply worked.

I read the source when I have time (which might be in some days).

On: Tue, 25 Mar 2003 10:14:06 +0100,
    Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > Thanks for your work!
> > 
> > I just manged to suspend and resume a freshly booted 2.4.20 + "your
> > latest patch" system ;-)
> > 
> > I had to read the kernel source a hour to do so, because I use devfs
> > and naively used resume=/dev/ide/host0/.... which obiously does not
> > work.
> > 
> > For now you might add to the docs that devfs users simply have to use
> > the corresponding old /dev/hdX name. If I have too much time I'll take
> > a look to make swsuspend devfs aware. But this might not be that soon
> > :-(
> 
> Is root= devfs aware? If yes fix swsusp
> else fix docs.
> 				Pavel

- René

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