usplash and Software Suspend 2 'userui'?

[Karl Hegbloom]

I wonder if the Usplash software has been written yet or not?

  https://wiki.ubuntu.com/USplash

The Software Suspend 2 developers have move the progress display for
suspend / resume from kernel to user space.  There is both an 'ncurses'
style text UI that uses a [----   ] style progress bar, and a graphical
one that uses the framebuffer.

  http://www.suspend2.net/

What I'm wondering is if, perhaps with a small amount of added code, the
userui program could act as the usplash program?  If the two systems
could be reconciled that would be good.

And, yes, I know, Ubuntu is not (as of now) using Suspend2 hibernation.

I think that the people in charge of the ACPI and hibernation features
should examine the Suspend2 system, and in particular, the 'hibernate'
script that is part of it.  That script is more feature-complete than
the present system used by Ubuntu, and could easily act as a base for
Ubuntu hibernation features.  It is designed to work with all of the
available suspend and hibernation types, both the already-in-kernel ones
and the one provided by the excellent Software Suspend 2 patch.

I am willing to dedicate some of my time to assisting with maintaining
an Ubuntu kernel source that contains the Suspend2 patch.  I have been
experimenting with it and learning the process of fitting it into the
Ubuntu kernel, already.  What I'm still learning to do right is to
maintain the whole separate patches patch-set thing.  Any advice,
reading material or mentoring on that would be appreciated.

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Karl Hegbloom <hegbloom at pdx.edu>