Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270346AbTGMTJN (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:09:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270347AbTGMTJN (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:09:13 -0400 Received: from smtp-out1.iol.cz ([194.228.2.86]:58319 "EHLO smtp-out1.iol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270346AbTGMTJK (ORCPT ); Sun, 13 Jul 2003 15:09:10 -0400 Date: Sun, 13 Jul 2003 21:23:29 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Jamie Lokier Cc: Nigel Cunningham , swsusp-devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements Message-ID: <20030713192329.GB570@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1057963547.3207.22.camel@laptop-linux> <20030712140057.GC284@elf.ucw.cz> <1058021722.1687.16.camel@laptop-linux> <20030712153719.GA206@elf.ucw.cz> <1058041211.2007.1.camel@laptop-linux> <20030713132704.GC19132@mail.jlokier.co.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030713132704.GC19132@mail.jlokier.co.uk> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1103 Lines: 27 Hi! > > > Okay, that's sane approach to do it... But where do you store pointer > > > to pagedir? > > > > I didn't answer this before. Sorry. Initially, you would still be > > expected to have a suspend partition, and hence it would still go in the > > header. Longer term, I'll have to learn more and see if there's a place > > we can use in the partition table or such like. > > You could also just make it a kernel command line option, for the > bootloader to store. It's not like it needs to move each time you > suspend - if you store the first block in a file in /boot. Okay, so we would simply require bootloader to tell us "resume=/dev/hda@LBA=1234"? I guess that's quite clean, altrough it needs bootloader change. Queue that for 2.7.0 ;-). Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/