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Date: Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:09:25 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: William Lee Irwin III <wli@holomorphy.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swsuspend and CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y
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Hi!

> >> I don't know what to make of highmem on laptops etc., but the VM's
> >> conventions should not be that hard to follow; also, there are uses for
> >> the swsusp functionality on other kinds of machines (e.g. checkpointing).
> >> Pure computationally-oriented systems such as would make use of this
> >> are somewhat different from my primary userbase to support, but I think
> >> it would be valuable to generalize swsusp in this way, and so provide
> >> rudimentary support for such users in addition to some small measure of
> >> cleanup (i.e. the cleanup adds functionality).
> >> Pavel, what do you think?
> 
> On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > I definitely want to support swsusp for server boxes, but I'm not 100%
> > sure how to do that easily.
> 
> I'm not entirely sure either. Mostly I suspect that the deep arch
> issues will be the tough ones, but things like this I can handle. =)

Well, I'd really hate to do 64GB support for swsusp for i386. It would
mean wider pointers in on-disk format and probably would not be
exactly nice.

								Pavel

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