Re: Help port swsusp to ppc.

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > That idea is to have a section that doesn't get replaced when we copy
> > the original kernel back. Thus, small amounts of data that suspend uses
> > or stores can be given the __nosave attribute. An example is the cpu
> > frequency value, which should match the boot kernel, not the value at
> > suspend time.
> 
> That's very hairy... You basically assume the boot kernel and the
> restore kernel are completely identical, which isn't something I would
> do. I didn't have time to dive into it, but I do/did intend to implement
> swsusp on ppc and I would eventually resume the whole environement
> straight from the bootloader without kernel help.

Well, then what you do is not swsusp.

swsusp does assume same kernel during suspend and resume. Doing resume
within bootloader (and thus avoiding this) would be completely
different design.

> Also, I haven't looked in details, but when switching to the "new" kernel
> from the "loader" (boot) one, do you shut down all devices properly ?
> This switch could actually be fairly similar to a kexec pass in this
> regard.

I hope we do shut devices down. In my tree at least.
								Pavel
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