Suspend2 isn't invasive.

[Trent Lloyd]

On Wed, Dec 20, 2006 at 11:10:44AM -0500, Matt Price wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-19-12 at 13:41 -0500, Philippe Cl??ri?? wrote:
> > Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > 
> > > 
> > > I can never understand why people keep saying hibernation is mostly a
> > > laptop thing. It's just as useful for desktops; I guess it's just a
> > > mindset thing.
> > > 
> > 
> > I agree! It would be particularly useful where street power is a once in
> > while thing. I'm on batteries most of the time and I can assure you that
> > conserving power on a desktop _is_ high priority. Which is why my desktop
> > is off whenever it's not in use. Reliable hibernation would be welcome.
> > 
> 
> so, I was able to build suspend2 kernels using nigel's
> ubuntu-2.6-suspend2 git tree (currently offline till git.kernel.org is
> less overloaded.  If linux-restricted-modules were available somewwhere
> for svn (or whatever) access, then I suppose I could also try to build
> l-r-m packages (this could happen after xmas I guess).  

AIUI, last time I checked, you can't simply compile suspend2 as a "module"
as it touches a couple small spots in the kernel (correct me if I'm wrong?)

Trent

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