Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: CELF interest in suspend-to-flash | From | Thomas Gleixner <> | Date | Wed, 10 Nov 2004 20:39:52 +0100 |
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On Wed, 2004-11-10 at 13:41 -0200, Marcelo Tosatti wrote: > > On Thu, 2004-11-11 at 04:59, Tim Bird wrote: > > > Hi all, > > > > > > Lately, the CE Linux Forum power management working group is showing some > > > interest in suspend-to-flash. Is there any current work in this area? > > > > > > Who should we talk to if we want to get involved with this (or lead > > > an effort if there isn't one)? > > > > Can flash be treated as a swap device at the moment? If so, it might > > simply be a matter of specifying the same parameter used in swapon for > > the resume2= boot parameter. > > Sure, you only need to have the flash as a block device (ie driven > by the IDE code).
That's true, if you are talking about Compact FLash which pretends to be a harddisk, but I assume that the embedded people are talking about raw FLASH chips. It's possible do this, but it will need some tweaks to the MTD code
tglx
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