From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S269557AbTGOTKc (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:10:32 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S269559AbTGOTKb (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:10:31 -0400 Received: from smtp2.clear.net.nz ([203.97.37.27]:56196 "EHLO smtp2.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S269557AbTGOTKZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Jul 2003 15:10:25 -0400 Date: Wed, 16 Jul 2003 07:08:17 +1200 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: ANNOUNCE: Software Suspend for 2.4 kernel v1.0 To: Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <1058296097.1701.13.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 This seems to have been swallowed somewhere in the mailservers yesterday, so I'm reposting.... --------- I'm delighted to announce the release of version 1.0 of Software Suspend for the Linux 2.4 kernel. Software Suspend is most easily described as the Linux equivalent of Windows' hibernate functionality. It saves the contents of memory to disk and powers down. When the computer is started up again, it reloads the contents and the user can continue from where they left off. No documents need to be reloaded or applications reopened and the process is much faster than a normal shutdown and start up. Software Suspend's features include: - Cancel a suspend cycle (during suspending) by pressing escape - Put an arbitrary limit on the size of the image saved - Full debugging support (compile time option) - Optional image compression - Asynchronous I/O Software Suspend doesn't yet include support for all hardware, and since the 2.4 kernel lacks the driver model being developed for 2.5, other hardware may require special handling. The Software Suspend website (swsusp.sf.net) and mailing list (accessible via the web site) provide support for dealing with these issues. Thanks go to Florent Chabaud, Pavel Machek and Gabor Kuti, along with many others who have tested and contributed to the development of Software Suspend to this point. ====== -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6, NIV.