[PREVIEW] Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4.

[PREVIEW] Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4.

[Nigel Cunningham]

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Hi all.

Release candidate 4 is ready for you to test and now being uploaded to
Sourceforge. It should be used with the following updated version
specific patches, which are also now available:

- 2.4.21 revision 1
- 2.4.22 revision 1
- 2.4.23 revision 5.
- 2.4.24
- 2.6.1  revision 1

Changes since rc3A:

- Fixed issues with preemption resulting in 'bad: scheduling while
atomic' messages in 2.6.
- Lots of cleanups and new documentation in the code.
- Fixed broken automatic swapon/off support. Now also used in debug_info
proc entry.
- Preliminary SMP support for 2.4. 2.6 support is coming.
- LZF compression (thanks to Marc Lehmann) and readahead support.
Suspend and resume in half the time!
- Fixed long standing oops when aborting during writing the image
header. Thanks to Bernard Blackham.  (I would have done it eventually!)
- Serial port power management support (Thanks Michael Frank). MTRR support converted to PM
support.
- Many other small fixes and improvements.

Further documentation is to be added and one minor quirk addressed, but codewise, I'm wondering if
this might be 2.0 by another name.

Nigel
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Re: [Swsusp-devel] [PREVIEW] Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4.

[Nigel Cunningham]

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Hi again.

Of course [PREVIEW] wasn't supposed to be in the subject line any more
:> The patches are all uploaded to Sourceforge now and in their proper
places.

Regards,

Nigel
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Re: [Swsusp-devel] [PREVIEW] Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4.

[Sebastian Kugler]

On Fri, 2004-01-16 at 20:41, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> - Fixed issues with preemption resulting in 'bad: scheduling while
> atomic' messages in 2.6.

Just gave it a shot. It works like a charm. :>

> Further documentation is to be added and one minor quirk addressed, but codewise, I'm wondering if
> this might be 2.0 by another name.

Looks really good, congrats, Nigel and everyone else.

regards,

sebas

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Magic is always the best solution, especially reliable magic.

Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4.

[Andreas Jellinghaus]

including urls might be nice.

also the feature comparison webpage
does not mention bios at all.
Till now I used SOFTWARE_SUSPEND because
it works fine, whereas PM_DISK somehow uses the 
bios, and does not work (dell latitude c600,
I don't have that magic partition the dell bios
expects).

SWSUSP2 will be like SWSUSP concerning this issue?

regards, Andreas

Re: Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4.

[Nigel Cunningham]

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Hi.

On Sat, 2004-01-17 at 10:35, Andreas Jellinghaus wrote:
> including urls might be nice.
> 
> also the feature comparison webpage
> does not mention bios at all.

True. Feel free to produce a column; I don't have any experience with
BIOS support for suspending, so don't know what it can/can't do and
whether this varies from computer to computer.

> Till now I used SOFTWARE_SUSPEND because
> it works fine, whereas PM_DISK somehow uses the 
> bios, and does not work (dell latitude c600,
> I don't have that magic partition the dell bios
> expects).
> 
> SWSUSP2 will be like SWSUSP concerning this issue?

I'm not sure that PM_DISK does use the bios. In fact, I'm pretty sure it
doesn't. Feel free to prove me wrong.

Regarding the relationship with SOFTWARE_SUSPEND, the answer is yes.
Software Suspend 2 works in a very similar way to Software Suspend.

Nigel

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Re: Announce: Software Suspend Core Patch 2.0 rc4.

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> including urls might be nice.
> 
> also the feature comparison webpage
> does not mention bios at all.
> Till now I used SOFTWARE_SUSPEND because
> it works fine, whereas PM_DISK somehow uses the 
> bios, and does not work (dell latitude c600,

Its simple bug somewhere in PM_DISK code... it should not use the
bios...

> SWSUSP2 will be like SWSUSP concerning this issue?

Yes.

							Pavel
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