Re: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>]

Hi Pavel et al.

On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 04:50, Barry K. Nathan wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 04, 2005 at 03:04:10AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the
> > kernel.  Can you explain a little more?
> > 
> > Would it not be simpler to just add "resume=03:02" to the boot command line?
> 
> In addition to what others have mentioned, there's also the situation
> where swap is on a logical volume. In that case, the initramfs needs to
> get LVM up and running before you can even think about resuming.
> 
> Swap on a logical volume is the default Fedora Core 3 partition layout,
> and I imagine it's the default for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as well.

You guys are reinventing the wheel a lot at the moment and I'm in the
middle of doing it for x86_64 lowlevel code :> Can we see if we can work
a little more closely - perhaps we can get some shared code going that
will allow us to handle these issues without stepping on each others'
feet? In particular, shared code for

- initramfs and initrd support
- lowlevel suspend & resume

would be good, wouldn't it?

I'm tempted to add setting and checking signatures, but I'm also in the
middle of implementing support for writing the image to a file, so that
could get messy.

Regards,

Nigel
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