Re: How does one get paid to work on the kernel?

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Sep 25 2003 - 02:20:03 EST


Hi!

> Nigel> There is support in the current kernel for Software Suspend, but
> Nigel> the 2.4 version contains a lot of extra functionality that isn't
> Nigel> present in 2.6 at the moment. (Support for HighMem, swap files,
> Nigel> asynchronous I/O, a nicer user interface, compression...).
>
> Nigel is being modest and doesn't mention that the 2.4 version actually
> works, which is possibly its biggest advantage.

2.6.0-test3 swsusp should work, too, unless you have driver problem.
With ext2, ide and vesafb you should be able to suspend/resume
correctly.
That might not be practical for you, but should be
good enough for fixing drivers.
Pavel
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Pavel
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