Re: Suspend2-patch vs Debian Sarge (official) kernel 2.6.8-16sarge1
Rob,
I was not looking for an alternative way to do suspend (I already knew
ACPI suspend feature), but I am interest in suspend2 (which has a lot of
great features ACPI don't have). More, suspend2 is a debian package
which should work with the Debian system - but actually it is not.
My intent was to understand why this package is in a non working state
for debian stable kernel, and how to get it work.
If you are interest I report some features of suspend2 (from
http://www.suspend2.net/features)
Software Suspend's features include:
* Image compression (LZF - very fast and highly recommended)
* Full asynchronous I/O and readahead for synchronous I/O for
maximum throughput
* Support for any number of swap partitions and/or files.
* The ability to cancel a suspend cycle (during suspending) by
pressing escape
* The ability to specify a maximum image size.
* Support for saving a full image of your memory, resulting in a
fast, responsive system after resuming
* Support for plugins: data transformers (compression, encryption)
and new storage backends (NFS support is planned).
* Nice user interface (Bootsplash compatible).
* Support for Highmem (up to 4GB), SMP and preemptive kernels.
* The ability to build Software Suspend 2 as modules, allowing it
to be called from an initrd.
* Speed and reliability - Software Suspend has been extensively
tested in a variety of configurations over many months. It is not
guaranteed to be perfect, but bugs found will be hunted and fixed quickly.
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