From: Marek Vasut <marek.vasut@gmail.com>
To: Jack Stone <jwjstone@fastmail.fm>
Subject: Re: loading firmware while usermodehelper disabled.
Date: Tue, 3 Jan 2012 01:31:15 +0100
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> On 02/01/12 22:31, Marek Vasut wrote:
> >> I don't think there is anyway to avoid the memory requirement if we want
> >> to be able to resume transparently to user-space (or even resume at all
> >> in some setups).
> > 
> > Well ... injecting firmware into kernel with some userland helper just
> > before suspend is no-go?
> 
> Its a perfectly good idea but you still need the full memory requirement
> during the suspend.

Hm ... and we can't have memory type that "can be swapped-out, but must be 
loaded back before suspend" in kernel, right?

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Jack