suspend-to-disk documentation updates
Hi!
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Pavel
Documentation/swsusp.txt +10 -3
@@ -122,11 +122,9 @@ 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
@@ -148,6 +146,15 @@ go there anyway.. - 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!
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