Re: CELF interest in suspend-to-flash

Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-10T19:18:20Z

Hi.

On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 02:41, Marcelo Tosatti wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 11, 2004 at 05:06:31AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 04:59, Tim Bird wrote:
> > > Hi all,
> > >
> > > Lately, the CE Linux Forum power management working group is showing some
> > > interest in suspend-to-flash. Is there any current work in this area?
> > >
> > > Who should we talk to if we want to get involved with this (or lead
> > > an effort if there isn't one)?
> >
> > Can flash be treated as a swap device at the moment? If so, it might
> > simply be a matter of specifying the same parameter used in swapon for
> > the resume2= boot parameter.
>
> Sure, you only need to have the flash as a block device (ie driven
> by the IDE code).

Cool. In that case, it should work fine with either swsusp (the mainline
implementation) or suspend2.

Regards,

Nigel
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