Re: Suspend2 for Dapper?

Karl Hegbloom wrote:
> I would like to see the Suspend2 patches in the Dapper kernel.  I
> believe that they are working hard on getting those into the mainstream
> kernel, but I don't know when that will be.
> 
> The thing is that the Suspend2 works on my laptop, but the one in the
> Breezy kernel does not.  Additionally, the 'hibernate' script that is
> part of the Suspend2 project does a much nicer job of managing the
> hibernate and resume than the 'acpi-support' scripts do.  (I wish that
> it just used 'hibernate', since it should support the Breezy suspend
> with simple modifications to its configuration file.)
> 
> Suspend2 can hibernate to a file, or to a swap partition.  It can
> hibernate to encrypted swap or file system also.  It has a user-space
> progress display that gives visual feedback about the suspend and resume
> cycle.  It can probably be worked into 'usplash' with a little bit of
> work.
> 
> Please spend at least one day investigating and trying out Suspend2 and
> 'hibernate' before you "shoot it down".
> 


This has been already investigated and discussed here:

http://bugzilla.ubuntu.com/show_bug.cgi?id=4723

and the outcome is that we will wait for upstream to include it. We are
not going to push it as external patch.

Fabio

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