Commit 55eebc46 authored by Pavel Machek's avatar Pavel Machek Committed by Linus Torvalds

[PATCH] suspend-to-disk documentation updates

parent aaf680ea
......@@ -122,11 +122,9 @@ Things to implement
interrupts AFAIK..
- We should only make a copy of data related to kernel segment, since any
process data won't be changed.
- By copying pages back to their original position, copy_page caused General
Protection Fault. Why?
- Hardware state restoring. Now there's support for notifying via the notify
chain, event handlers are welcome. Some devices may have microcodes loaded
into them. We should have event handlers for them aswell.
into them. We should have event handlers for them as well.
- We should support other architectures (There are really only some arch
related functions..)
- We should also restore original state of swaps if the ``noresume'' kernel
......@@ -149,6 +147,15 @@ Not so important ideas for implementing
- If X is active while suspending then by resuming calling svgatextmode
corrupts the virtual console of X.. (Maybe this has been fixed AFAIK).
Drivers we support
- IDE disks are okay
- vesafb
Drivers that need support
- pc_keyb -- perhaps we can wait for vojtech's input patches
- do IDE cdroms need some kind of support?
- IDE CD-RW -- how to deal with that?
Any other idea you might have tell me!
Contacting the author
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