Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 15 Nov 2002 19:09:25 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] swsuspend and CONFIG_DISCONTIGMEM=y |
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Hi!
> >> I don't know what to make of highmem on laptops etc., but the VM's > >> conventions should not be that hard to follow; also, there are uses for > >> the swsusp functionality on other kinds of machines (e.g. checkpointing). > >> Pure computationally-oriented systems such as would make use of this > >> are somewhat different from my primary userbase to support, but I think > >> it would be valuable to generalize swsusp in this way, and so provide > >> rudimentary support for such users in addition to some small measure of > >> cleanup (i.e. the cleanup adds functionality). > >> Pavel, what do you think? > > On Fri, Nov 15, 2002 at 01:02:33PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > I definitely want to support swsusp for server boxes, but I'm not 100% > > sure how to do that easily. > > I'm not entirely sure either. Mostly I suspect that the deep arch > issues will be the tough ones, but things like this I can handle. =)
Well, I'd really hate to do 64GB support for swsusp for i386. It would mean wider pointers in on-disk format and probably would not be exactly nice.
Pavel
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