Suspend2 isn't invasive.

[Matt Price]

On Fri, 2006-22-12 at 08:31 +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi Trent.
> 
> On Thu, 2006-12-21 at 20:18 +0900, Trent Lloyd wrote:
> > 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?)
> 
> Yeah, there's no build-as-a-module option for Suspend2 at the moment. I
> assume Matt is aiming instead to build the normal kernel and associated
> paraphenalia, except having it Suspend2 enabled as well.
> 

yes, nigel's right.  I want to make it easy for people to switch to
suspend2 if they want to; this means at minimum having a git branch for
ubuntu that is patched with suspend2 and enables the suspend2 options by
default, and providing a linux-restricted-modules-src package that will
work with self-compiled kernels without too much trouble. the l-r-m bit
is the most important, and as l-r-m 2.6.20 source is now available it
shouldn't be so hard to work that up.

matt

> Regards,
> 
> Nigel
> 
-- 
Matt Price
History Dept
University of Toronto
matt.price at utoronto.ca
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