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SubjectRe: swsusp: allow resume from initramfs
Hi!

> > > I don't understand how this can be affected by the modularness of the
> > > kernel. Can you explain a little more?
> > >
> > > Would it not be simpler to just add "resume=03:02" to the boot command line?
> >
> > In addition to what others have mentioned, there's also the situation
> > where swap is on a logical volume. In that case, the initramfs needs to
> > get LVM up and running before you can even think about resuming.
> >
> > Swap on a logical volume is the default Fedora Core 3 partition layout,
> > and I imagine it's the default for Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 as well.
>
> You guys are reinventing the wheel a lot at the moment and I'm in the
> middle of doing it for x86_64 lowlevel code :> Can we see if we can work
> a little more closely - perhaps we can get some shared code going that
> will allow us to handle these issues without stepping on each others'
> feet? In particular, shared code for
>
> - initramfs and initrd support

Its actually done, and it was few strategically placed lines of code
(like 20 lines). I do not think it can be meaningfully shared.

> - lowlevel suspend & resume

This makes very good sense to share. We have i386, x86-64 and ppc
versions. They simply walk list of pbe's; that should be simple enough
to be usable for suspend2, too....
Pavel
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