Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 28 Dec 2003 15:47:07 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: 2.6.0 swsusp |
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Hi!
> On a machine with working ACPI, I compiled 2.6.0 with Software Suspend > (Experimental). > > 1. Help information says that the next boot can be done with > "resume=/dev/swappartition" or with "noresume". It does not say how the > swsusp command decides which swap partition to save to. The man page (which > still isn't sure if the command is named swsusp or suspend) also doesn't > say. How can I guess which swap partition to designate at resume time? For > the moment this is a hypothetical question because I haven't needed to make > a second swap partition on this machine yet.
You have to have just one swap partition for now.
> 2. When I forgot to say either "resume" or "noresume", the kernel detected > that it could not use the swap partition, but it did not offer the > possibility to resume. Surely it could detect early enough that the swap > partition is not usable for swap but is usable for resume, and could ask the > user whether to do a "resume" or "noresume".
At *that* point, it is no longer possible to resume safely.
> 3. When swsusp completed its writing, it decided that my ACPI BIOS could > not power off automatically. I wonder why. No other OS has trouble > powering off this machine. Also on machines with older APM BIOSes, no OS > had trouble powering off the machines, not even Linux with APM drivers. So > I could hold the power switch for 4 seconds and the BIOS beeped a warning > before powering off, but I wonder why it was necessary.
If regular halt is also unable to power off machine, fill the bug in ACPI bugzilla. Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - 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/
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