From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422641AbWBVAg0 (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:36:26 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422640AbWBVAgZ (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:36:25 -0500 Received: from b3162.static.pacific.net.au ([203.143.238.98]:2210 "EHLO cust8446.nsw01.dataco.com.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422641AbWBVAgY (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Feb 2006 19:36:24 -0500 From: Nigel Cunningham Organization: Cyclades Corporation To: Andreas Happe Subject: Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 10:33:25 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, suspend2-devel@lists.suspend2.net References: <20060201113710.6320.68289.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <200602211257.29161.ncunningham@cyclades.com> In-Reply-To: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart3454216.OpH2ghY7IW"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200602221033.29340.ncunningham@cyclades.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart3454216.OpH2ghY7IW Content-Type: text/plain; charset="utf-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi. On Tuesday 21 February 2006 22:59, Andreas Happe wrote: > On 2006-02-21, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > On Tuesday 21 February 2006 10:52, Andreas Happe wrote: > >> I tried to use suspend2, but setup wasn't that great (i.e. didn't > >> work as well or easy as swsusp) so I dropped it. > > > > Could you provide more detail? If there's something I can do to make > > it eas=3D ier=3D20 to use, I'm more than willing to consider that. > > it's way too long ago to remember specifics, the system didn't resume > after suspending. Swsusp worked just out of the box (sans dri support > after resuming) without the need to apply a patch (which wasn't supplied > as normal patch (if i remember correctly) but was used by starting a > script)). I'm sorry that I didn't submit a proper bug report, but the > alternative worked for me. Ok. That was when I provided multiple patches - they're all combined now. T= he=20 script is still there, but just to make applying easier for newbies. > You can't make it simpler except you get in included into mainline (even > by making compromises). Agreed. > > 12 bytes per page is 3MB/1GB. If swsusp was to add support for > > multiple swap partitions or writing to files, those requirement 20 > > might be closer to 5MB/GB. Bitmaps, in comparison, use ~32K/GB (approx > > because it depends whether the gigabyte is all in one zone). > > Proportionally ,20 bitmaps are eating a lot less space out of your > > gigabyte, but I don't think anyone is going to notice that they have 3 > > or 4MB more cache per gigabyte with Suspend2 than they have with > > swsusp). > > This would take suspend2 a step closer to mainline.. you'll have a very > honest 'Thank You' if that could happen.. Well, we'll see what Rafael and I can work out. Regards, Nigel > andy > > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ --nextPart3454216.OpH2ghY7IW Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBD+7FZN0y+n1M3mo0RAuQTAJ4qXOf740g1c1Ig6XtsHFGrFCfueACeK9lU XxldGVEnMjKiRHOxXyV0rnI= =BrwJ -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart3454216.OpH2ghY7IW--