Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261419AbTISH7N (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:59:13 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261421AbTISH7N (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:59:13 -0400 Received: from smtp1.clear.net.nz ([203.97.33.27]:38610 "EHLO smtp1.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S261419AbTISH7M (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Sep 2003 03:59:12 -0400 Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 19:59:30 +1200 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: How does one get paid to work on the kernel? In-reply-to: To: =?ISO-8859-1?Q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <1063958370.5520.6.camel@laptop-linux> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Content-type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-transfer-encoding: 8BIT References: <1063915370.2410.12.camel@laptop-linux> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1123 Lines: 27 There is support in the current kernel for Software Suspend, but the 2.4 version contains a lot of extra functionality that isn't present in 2.6 at the moment. (Support for HighMem, swap files, asynchronous I/O, a nicer user interface, compression...). On Fri, 2003-09-19 at 19:51, M?ns Rullg?rd wrote: > Nigel Cunningham writes: > > > I'm about to finish my present employment, and have wondered about the > > possibility of getting paid to finish off the 2.4 version of Software > > Suspend and do the port to 2.6. How does one go about seeing if anyone > > might be interested in funding such a project for a few months? > > Hasn't that already been done? -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6, NIV. - 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/