tuxonice support (again...)

[Matt Price]

(CC:ed to a couple of active ubuntu/tuxonice users)

Dear Kernel Team,

Now that jaunty is practically out the door, I imagine you're starting
to think about the karmic kernel.  I would like to urge you once again
to consider including a tuxonice kernel, perhaps as an experimental
flavor (though of course I'd love to see it in -generic).  I know it's
been rejected in the past, but the situation continues to change, so I'd
like to rehearse the arguments in its favor one more time:

1.  Tuxonice is _much_ faster.  For most of the intrepid cycle I used
unmodified -generic kernel packages, and resume times on my Dell D820
(Intel CoreDuo T2400, 1 Gig RAM) were abysmal -- over 2 minutes (cold
boot is also quite slow on this system).  I switched last week to
tuxonice-patched kernels from nigel's ppa, and the resume from GRUB
prompt to a highly responsive system with working wireless, running
evolution, firefox with ca. 30 tabs, amarok, and emacs, now takes just
over 30 seconds.  Even if karmic boot times are much faster than
jaunty's, those times would be hard to match without something like
tuxonice.  
2. Tuxonice is now a drop-in replacement for swsusp, and it's supported
by pm-utils.  When installing the tuxonice kernel, the only changes I
had to make under intrepid were some minor modifications of the
initramfs.  
3.  Tuxonice no longer relies on the LZF compression algorithm, and
instead uses LZO, which is already in the kernel.  
4.  Though there were some delays earlier in the year, Nigel has now
released Tuxonice 3.0 and now 3.0.1, fixing the vast majority of bugs
reported on the tuxonice list.  He is very close to submitting a series
of patches to linux-next, and there's reason to believe that at least
some of them might be accepted.  
5.  Nigel now maintains not only several ubuntu git branches, but a PPA
with ubuntu kernels; hopefully this reduces the burden on the kernel
team when it comes to building and testing tuxonice kernels.  

The main point is that including tuxonice in ubuntu is now much less
work than it would have been even six months ago, and also less
disruptive of non-tuxonice suspend and hibernate protocols.  So I guess
my question is, what would have to happen to begin to have tuxonice
included?  And is there anything I or other users could do to make
things easier?  Though this is a small part of the user experience, it
can also be a very important one.  

Thanks for your help,
Matt

Some References:
Nigel's PPA:
https://launchpad.net/~tuxonice/+archive/ppa
Using the PPA under Intrepid:
http://lists.tuxonice.net/lurker/message/20090409.181125.d20e0bbe.en.html 
Tuxonice Website, with announcements of 3.0 and 3.0.1:
http://www.tuxonice.net/ 
Nigel's jaunty tree:
http://kernel.ubuntu.com/git?p=nigelc/ubuntu-jaunty%
2Btuxonice.git;a=summary