From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262409AbTJYINL (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 04:13:11 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262410AbTJYINL (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 04:13:11 -0400 Received: from smtp2.clear.net.nz ([203.97.37.27]:47354 "EHLO smtp2.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262409AbTJYINI (ORCPT ); Sat, 25 Oct 2003 04:13:08 -0400 Date: Sat, 25 Oct 2003 21:12:54 +1300 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Announce: Swsusp-2.0-2.6-alpha1 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <1067069558.1975.54.camel@laptop-linux> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all. I'm pleased to be able to announce the first test release of a port of the current 2.0 pre-release Software Suspend code to 2.6. This is now available from www.sourceforge.net/projects/swsusp and bk://swsusp25.bkbits.net/main. Release notes: - The patch is prepared against current bk. It should apply against test8 with minimal and perhaps no fuss. - Breaks current Software Suspend implementations in the kernel. Apologies to Patrick and Pavel. I won't be leaving it this way for long, I promise! - I/O is slow and jerky. I need to investigate the cause for this further; something in the hooks to the new bio code is not quite right. Apart from the above, and the normal problems with incomplete driver support will continue. In addition, you may see freezing failures. If the process hangs at 'Freezing processes: Waiting for activity to finish' or 'Syncing remaining I/O', try pressing escape once. If the process doesn't abort, try a second time (which tries harder to restart things). All going well, you should be able to cancel the suspend. A log of what went wrong will be stored in /var/log/messages. Run it through ksymoops if necessary and send it to me, and I should be able to address the issue. Please send feedback via the Software Suspend mailing list on Sourceforge. See http://swsusp.sf.net for FAQs, mailing list details and so on. Because the code is essentially the same as the 2.4 version, many of the solutions to issues will be the same. As always, I look forward to hearing feedback. Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit.