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On Mon, 2011-07-04 at 20:02 +0800, Cui, Dexuan wrote:
> Richard Purdie wrote:
> > For reference if you want to do suspend to disk (swap) you need a lot
> > of swap space btw. Still no where near that much though!
>
> Does (or should )Yocto Linux support suspend-to-disk? I'm not sure about this.
> BTW: Linux can alse use a regular file as swap area.
> So in case the swap size is not enough (e.g., for suspend-to-disk), I
> think a user could create a big enough file  to meet the need (I
> didn't test this with Linux yet).

I don't think we've supported it in the past, its just a datapoint to
keep in mind.

For reference, you can't use a file easily since the VM data needs to be
available as the kernel boots to be able to resume from it.

Cheers,

Richard