Re: Booting - new idea?

["Gustavo Franco" <gustavorfranco@gmail.com>]

On 6/30/06, Mike Hommey <mh@glandium.org> wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 30, 2006 at 11:54:42AM +0200, Tim Dijkstra <newsuser@famdijkstra.org> wrote:
> > On Thu, 29 Jun 2006 15:14:07 -0300
> > "Gustavo Franco" <gustavorfranco@gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > > On 6/29/06, Christian Perrier <bubulle@debian.org> wrote:
> > > > > Software suspend which exists in kernel for several years?
> > > >
> > > >
> > > > And works properly in Debian since what? Weeks? Months?:-)
> > >
> > > It doesn't really work properly anywhere, does it? :-P
> >
> > Has worked properly here very well with suspend2, which isn't in the
> > stock kernel unfortunately.
>
> Has worked properly here very well with whatever is in the debian
> kernel, since 2.6.15 at least.

Well Mike, maybe very well for you not for many users and some kernel
developers[0] agreed. Btw, Greg wrote an article for lwn (major
suspend changes),
read it there if you're subscribed. Really interesting content that shows the
current problems with the kernel implementation (up to 2.6.17) that should
be solved soon, since Linus came up with a interesting patch.

[0]  = http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.power-management.general/1884/focus=1884

regards,
-- stratus