From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270888AbTGPKXb (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:23:31 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270887AbTGPKXa (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:23:30 -0400 Received: from mauve.demon.co.uk ([158.152.209.66]:17295 "EHLO mauve.demon.co.uk") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270878AbTGPKWZ (ORCPT ); Wed, 16 Jul 2003 06:22:25 -0400 From: root@mauve.demon.co.uk Message-Id: <200307161037.LAA01628@mauve.demon.co.uk> Subject: Re: [Swsusp-devel] RE:Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Softwa To: pavel@suse.cz (Pavel Machek) Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 11:37:05 +0100 (BST) Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <20030716083758.GA246@elf.ucw.cz> from "Pavel Machek" at Jul 16, 2003 10:37:58 AM X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.5 PL1] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > > Hi! > > > Thus wrote pavel@ucw.cz: > > > Anyway, depending on acpi is wrong and needs to be fixed in 2.7. > > > > Could you elaborate on that? Do you mean S4, or any suspend state in > > general? > > It would be nice to have arch-neutral way to enter suspend to ram and > suspend to disk. Being arch-neutral, it may not depend on ACPI. Taking this in a slightly different direction. It would be even nicer to be able to be able to migrate machine images between machines. How identical do machines have to be before it's no longer just a case of copying the file? Identical make of RAM, same CPU model, same BIOS version, with the PCI and USB things connected to the same slots in the same way? Or is it a little looser?